STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1446-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2607

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to limit the ways in which the operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application working with the Department of Education can use student data.

The Department of Education, Microsoft, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and one concerned individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair