STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2983

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2712

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Taxation and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2712, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the development of a data encryption system.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committees find that legislation to deter identity theft, which was passed by the 2006 and 2007 Legislature, represents important steps in ensuring against identity theft.  The legislation also represents significant costs for the agencies involved.  The City and County of Honolulu, for example, administers a number of state‑wide and county-wide computer systems that contain considerable amounts of personal public information, including maintenance of the state and county-wide drivers licensing, motor vehicle registration, voter registration, and juvenile justice information systems.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its content and replacing the content with that of S.B. No. 3145, S.D. 1.

     As the two measures are similar in content, the amendments:

     (1)  Clarify that the appropriation shall be for a grant‑in‑aid to the City and County of Honolulu; and

     (2)  Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style and clarity in internal references.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Taxation and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2712, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2712, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Taxation and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing,

____________________________ RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair