STAND. COM. REP. NO.  844

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 613

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 613 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 data and privacy of students in public schools by limiting the purposes for which computer service providers can process student data and prohibiting the sale, disclosure, and processing of student data for commercial or advertising purposes by computer service providers without parental consent.

The Hawaii State PTSA and Microsoft supported this measure.  The Department of Education; State Privacy & Security Coalition, Inc.; and TechAmerica commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to March 15, 2038, to encourage further discussion.

     Your Committee respectfully requests that the subject matter committees consider protecting the privacy of all students from grades kindergarten to twelve and consider California legislation, the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, as a model for this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 613, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 613, H.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair