STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1127

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1393

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1393 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT (MODIFIED),"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is protect privacy by authorizing agencies to withhold from public disclosure individuals' home addresses in government records concerning contract hires and consultants and in certified payroll records on public works contracts.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Information Practices.

     Your Committee finds that although home addresses are generally not required to be disclosed under the personal privacy exception of the chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified), that exception is not available for certain categories of government documents.  This measure extends to home addresses the same protection currently provided to individuals' social security numbers in payroll records on public works contracts and other government records concerning public hires and consultants.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1393, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair