Bill Text: HI HB2355 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Relating To Personal Privacy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-09 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, McDermott, Souki, Tupola, Woodson excused (5). [HB2355 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2355-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2355

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PERSONAL PRIVACY.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding a new chapter to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"Chapter

DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS RECORDS

     §   -1  Government records and personal records; department of Hawaiian home lands.  (a)  The following government records maintained by the department of Hawaiian home lands shall not be required to be publicly disclosed or made open to inspection pursuant to public records requests under section 92F-11:

     (1)  Loan applications, loan prequalification documents, loan approval documents, underwriting findings, financial data forms, and financial assessments except where disclosure is required by section 92F-12(a)(8);

     (2)  Any consent to release personal information permitting the department of hawaiian home lands to access birth, marriage, death certificates and other documents in the application or lessee file to assist the family or individual designated by the applicant or lessee with the processing of an application or lease award;

     (3)  Designation of successor to a lease;

     (4)  Designation of successor to application rights for a homestead lease;

     (5)  Requests to succeed to a homestead lease; and

     (6)  Requests to succeed to application rights.

     (b)  The hawaiian homes commission may hold an executive meeting as provided in section 92-4 for the purpose of discussing the records made exempt from public disclosure by subsection (a) in the same manner as for the purposes listed in subsection (a) of section 92-5."

     SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect on December 24, 2088.



 

Report Title:

Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Disclosure of Government Records

 

Description:

Exempts DHHL records related to beneficiary loan applications, beneficiary vital records, and lease succession from disclosure and inspection requirements for public records.  Permits DHHL to discuss such records in closed executive meetings exempt from Sunshine Law requirements.  (HB2355 HD1)

 

 

 

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