Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2142, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect from public disclosure the trade secrets or confidential or proprietary information contained in government records made or received by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) including business plans attached to a lease of state land.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT), Office of Information Practices, and NELHA submitted testimony in support of this measure and offered revisions.

Your Committee finds that protection of trade secrets and proprietary information of the tenants of NELHA is appropriate to encourage further business development activities through this agency.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making the revisions suggested by all three testifiers. Specifically, your Committee amended the bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2142, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2142, H.D. 2.