STAND. COM. REP. NO.  501

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 356

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 356 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish that a license applicant retains no significant privacy interest in government records of the applicant's requisite experience, passage of relevant trade examinations, and possession of adequate bonding, and therefore the disclosure of such information by a government agency does not constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy under the State's Freedom of Information Act. 

     The Iron Worker's Stabilization Fund testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the reference to "records" to "licensee's record" for consistency with the language in existing relevant selections of the Freedom of Information Act; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 356, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 356, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair