Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 195 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to information practices.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that protects trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information contained within records pertaining to tenants and prospective tenants of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority from public disclosure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 195, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 195, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, for further consideration.