STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2664

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3092

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3092 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to prevent identity theft of individuals in the State by preventing persons' full social security numbers from being disclosed in certain public documents.

     Specifically, this bill would require that judgments, orders, and decrees that are recorded in the Land Court and the Bureau of Conveyances stop using the full social security number and use only the last four digits of the social security number to identify the person against whom the judgment, order, or decree is rendered.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  The Consumer Data Industry Association submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee believes that this measure, which requires using only the last four digits of persons' social security number in judgments, orders, and decrees filed in the Land Court or the Bureau of Conveyances, will help protect persons from identity theft.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date from "upon its approval" to "January 1, 2050" to facilitate further discussion on this issue.

     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 S.B. No. 3092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3092, S.D. 1, 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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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair