STAND. COM. REP. NO.  88-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1712

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1712 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STUDENT DATA MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect the privacy of public school students by limiting the ways in which the operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application that is designed, marketed, and used for school purposes can use public school students' data.

Microsoft and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Department of Education supported the intent of the measure.  The State Public Charter School Commission submitted comments.

     Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Judiciary further consider and examine issues of student privacy if that Committee considers this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1712 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair