STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1118

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     S.B. No. 210

        S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 210, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA SHARING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement, Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, Office of the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Criminal Justice Research Institute, Legislative Reference Bureau, and The Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest.

 

     Your Committees find that the establishment of a statewide criminal justice data repository will increase the efficiency of the State's criminal justice system and improve public safety and homeland security.  Your Committees further find that the establishment of a working group to address the complexities of statewide data sharing in the criminal justice system will allow all state and county criminal justice agencies to securely and efficiently share appropriate and essential data.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that the working group shall provide annual updates to the Legislature;

 

     (2)  Clarifying that the Legislative Reference Bureau, upon request of the working group's chairperson by no later than October 1st of each year, may draft proposed legislation for the working group;

 

     (3)  Specifying that the working group members and their respective departments and agencies shall protect the information and data that may be shared as part of the working group;

 

     (4)  Specifying that the working group shall cease to exist on July 1, 2029;

 

     (5)  Inserting an effective date of March 22, 2075, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (6)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 210, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 210, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair