HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	194
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO evidence.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1.  Act 210, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008 (Act 210), established a limited news media privilege against the compelled disclosure of sources and unpublished information to a legislative, executive, or judicial officer or body, or to any other person with the power to compel testimony.  Act 210 is scheduled to sunset on June 30, 2011.

     The purpose of this Act is to make the news media privilege permanent by repealing the scheduled sunset of Act 210.

     SECTION 2.  Act 210, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, is amended by amending section 3 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval[, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2011]."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2011.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

News Media Privilege; Evidence

Description:

Makes permanent the limited news media privilege against the compelled disclosure of sources and unpublished information.

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