STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2953

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2292

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2292, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRIVACY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to modernize the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology Services; Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; Fellow of Information Privacy; and Hawai‘i Pacific Health. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Credit Union League, Hawaii Bankers Association, and Hawaii Financial Services Association, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that House Concurrent Resolution No. 225, Senate Draft 1, Regular Session of 2019, convened the Twenty-First Century Privacy Law Task Force, whose membership consisted of individuals in government and the private sector having an interest or expertise in privacy law in the digital era. Your Committee further finds that, following significant inquiry and discussion, the Twenty-First Century Privacy Law Task Force recommended that the outdated definition of "personal information" in chapter 487N, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires the public to be notified of data breaches, should be updated and expanded. This measure will help ensure that individuals are protected from data breaches which may place an individual at risk of identity theft or may compromise the individual's personal safety.

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. 2292, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair