STAND. COM. REP. NO.  438-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2299

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish permanent or temporary privacy officer and security officer positions, subject to civil service, in the Department of Health in compliance with federal information privacy and security laws.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Temporarily exempting the privacy officer and security officer positions from civil service laws; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair