STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2981

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2212

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2212, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ROBOCALLS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to hold telecommunication service providers and third-party spoofing providers accountable by making certain robocalls and spoofing unlawful.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' Office of Consumer Protection, Maui County Office on Aging, Hawaiian Telcom, and one individual. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from CTIA and one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Department of Health.

Your Committees find that nearly sixty million Americans say that they have fallen victim to a phone scam in the past year. According to a survey conducted by TrueCaller and The Harris Poll, Americans have been swindled out of more than $30 billion over the past year in total. Your Committees further find that this measure seeks to prohibit many of the same practices regulated by the federal Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009, Public Law 111-331, and provides another tool for state law enforcement to hold telecommunication service providers and third-party spoofing providers accountable.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2212, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2212, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Judiciary,

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair