STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1458

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 461

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 461, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to transfer the Office of Information Practices from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Information Practices and the League of Women Voters.

     Your Committee finds that placing the Office of Information Practices within the Department of Accounting and General Services will meet the state constitutional requirement that permanent executive branch offices be allocated within principal executive branch departments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date of:

     (1)  Section 5, relating to the powers and duties of the Office of Information Practices, to take effect upon approval; and

     (2)  The rest of the measure to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 461, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 461, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair