STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2411
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: S.B. No. 2583
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2583 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY HAZARD EVALUATION DATA,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to prohibit discovery of safety hazard analysis, including motor vehicle accident reports completed by the police, but to permit the release of source data.
The Attorney General, the Department of Transportation, and the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Corporation Counsel submitted testimony in support of this measure. Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii submitted testimony in opposition. The Judiciary and the Office of Information Practices submitted comments.
Your Committee finds that this measure reinforces existing federal laws that limit the disclosure of state highway safety information during litigation.
Upon further consideration, your Committee amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting subsection (c)(2), which protected source data that is collected for purposes of highway safety analyses from disclosure;
(2) Replacing the reference to chapter 92 with a reference to chapter 92F, which is the Uniform Information Practices Law; and
(3) Making technical, non-substantive amendments for clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2583, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2583, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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