STAND. COM. REP. NO. 7

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 331

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Taxation, to which was referred S.B. No. 331 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC DATA AND INFORMATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form bill is to amend the law relating to electronic data and information.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Adding a findings and purpose section;

     (2)  Adding a new section in Chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, prohibiting all governmental agencies of the State and county from displaying an individual's social security number in any record or document available for public inspection that is collected, created, or maintained by an agency; and

     (3)  Appropriating an unspecified amount to the Office of the Auditor for research and support services necessary to develop additional deterrents for identity theft, and in particular, those related to the compromise of electronic data and information.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Taxation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 331, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 331, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Economic Development and Taxation, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Taxation,

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair