STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2021

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1433

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1433, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to support the Attorney General's Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center in administering the Address Confidentiality Program by appropriating funds for staffing, operations, and equipment.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, American Association of University Women of Hawaii, and The Sex Abuse Treatment Center.

Your Committee finds that funding the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center's Address Confidentiality Program will enable state and local agencies to provide survivors of domestic abuse, sexual offenses, or stalking with a substitute mailing address to use instead of a physical address. Your Committee further finds that providing a substitute address will increase the safety, privacy, and protection of program participants.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1433, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1433, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair