STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1083-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2607

      S.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 Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 2, 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 and specifying 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.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association and Microsoft supported this measure.  The Department of Education supported the intent of the 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 S.B. No. 2607, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

____________________________

ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair