STAND. COM. REP. NO. 87-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2711
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2711 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION
     PRACTICES,"


begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make the Office of
Information Practices (OIP)a permanent office in the Legislature.

     The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, the League of Women
Voters of Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, and the Hawaii State
Chapter of the National Rainbow Coalition, Inc., submitted
testimony in support of this measure.  

     OIP is presently a temporary agency attached to the Office
of the Lieutenant Governor.  It serves an important role in the
exercise of the people's right to know.  Confidence in state
government is enhanced by making OIP a permanent office.  The OIP
will be afforded independence and protection of its valuable
function by being placed in the legislative branch of government.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the
specific amount of the OIP director's salary and replacing it
with a blank amount for purposes of further discussion.
Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes
of style and clarity.


 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2711, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2711, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian
Affairs and Consumer Protection and Commerce.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Legislative
                                   Management,



                                   ______________________________
                                   EZRA KANOHO, Chair