STAND. COM. REP. NO. 761-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2448

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2448, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A STATEWIDE DATA HUB,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish and maintain a statewide data hub to collect employer and employee data;

(2) Authorize the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine the type of employer and employee data to collect, the functions of the statewide data hub, and access and document retention policies for the data; and

(3) Appropriate funds.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Retail Merchants of Hawaii and Hawaii Food Industry Association. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2448, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair