STAND. COM. REP. NO. 765

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1130

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1130, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow a party seeking to record a judgment with the Bureau of Conveyances or Land Court to redact the first five digits of any Social Security Numbers that may be included on the judgment. 

Your Committee finds that an unintended consequence of the Legislature's action to protect citizens' privacy by allowing only the last four digits of a person's Social Security number to be included in documents registered or recorded with the Bureau of Conveyances is to preclude the acceptance of some court orders by the Bureau of Conveyances. 

Many judicial orders and judgments contain the parties' full Social Security numbers as a means of identification.  Court clerks are not authorized to redact Social Security numbers in copies of documents to be certified as true and correct copies of documents on file in the court.  However, the current law prohibits the Registrar of the Bureau of Conveyances and the Assistant Registrar of the Land Court from accepting a document that contains a full Social Security number. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring, instead of allowing, a party seeking registration or recordation of a judgment that contains a Social Security number to block out the first five numbers of the Social Security number on the copy presented for registration or recordation with the Bureau of Conveyances.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1130, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1130, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair