STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2164

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3145

       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 Economic Development and Taxation, to which was referred S.B. No. 3145 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the development of a data encryption system.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that legislation to deter identity theft, which was passed by the 2006 Legislature, represents important steps in ensuring against identity theft.  The legislation also represents significant costs for the agencies involved.  The City and County of Honolulu, for example, administers a number of state‑wide and county-wide computer systems that contain considerable amounts of personal public information, including maintenance of the state and county-wide drivers licensing, motor vehicle registration, voter registration, and juvenile justice information systems.

     Your Committee strongly supports protection of the personal information of Hawaii residents and maintenance of the highest level of confidentiality and security.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the appropriation shall be for a grant‑in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style and clarity in internal references.

     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. 3145, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3145, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair