STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1591-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2858

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OPEN GOVERNMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow a state agency to seek judicial review by a circuit court of a decision rendered by the Office of Information Practices, and clarifies the standard of review the circuit court is required to apply.

 

     The Department of Human Resources Development, Office of Information Practices, and Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this measure.  The Office of the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, three members of the Maui County Council, Americans for Democratic Action/Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, Society of Professional Journalists Hawaii Chapter, Big Island Press Club, and a concerned individual testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair