STAND. COM. REP. NO. 942

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 331

       S.D. 3

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 331, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help prevent identity theft by supporting efforts to protect a person's vital information and to develop more deterrents for identity theft.

More specifically, this measure appropriates funds to the Office of the Auditor for research and support services necessary to develop additional deterrents for identity theft, particularly those related to the compromise of electronic data and information.

Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Support Services Department of the Judiciary and Retail Merchants of Hawaii.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 331, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 331, S.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair