STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1097
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: S.B. No. 140
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 140 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the amendment to section 92F-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and instead adding a new section in Chapter 94, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish the duty to exercise reasonable care in maintaining records;
(2) Creating a rebuttable presumption that the government entity has exercised reasonable care in its maintenance of government records if it adheres to a duly adopted the records retention and destruction plan; and
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2016.
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. 140, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 140, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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