STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3038

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2666

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2666, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERSONAL INFORMATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the law allowing a business to scan an individual's driver's license or identification card to verify age when providing age-restricted goods.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of Liquor Control of the County of Kauai, Department of Liquor Control of the County of Hawaii, Liquor Commission of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Food Industry Association, and Seven-Eleven Hawaii, Inc.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu and American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committees find that identity theft is a serious crime with lasting negative repercussions for individual victims.  Information from a stolen state identification card or driver's license is a valuable source of information for identity thieves.  Minimizing the exposure of an individual's protected information is critical, and imposing reasonable restrictions on the scanning of driver's licenses and state identification cards promotes the privacy interests of individuals and limits exposure of personal information.  On the other hand, businesses selling age-restricted products greatly benefit from the ability to scan the identifications of all customers for the purpose of verifying age.  This measure balances the need to obtain personal information with the need to protect consumers.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the requirement that driver's licenses and identification cards allowed to be scanned be Hawaii licenses or identification cards, to broaden the protections provided by this measure; 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 Technology and the Arts and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2666, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2666, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair