Bill Text: HI SB2582 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Privacy; Aeronautics

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-10 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB2582 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-SB2582-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2582
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to unmanned aircraft systems.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 52D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§52D-     International Association of Chiefs of Police Aviation Committee; unmanned aircraft systems guidelines.  The chief of police shall implement the International Association of Chiefs of Police Aviation Committee's "Recommended Guidelines for the use of Unmanned Aircraft.""

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 263, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§263-     Weapons aboard unmanned aircraft systems used for commercial purposes prohibited; penalty.  It shall be unlawful for any person to install or carry weapons aboard an unmanned aircraft system that is used for commercial purposes and is flown across or above the State.  Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

     SECTION 3.  Chapter 803, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part III to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§803-     Unmanned aircraft systems; warrantless searches; use of data.  Whenever data obtained on an individual is obtained through a search using an unmanned aircraft system and conducted without a warrant, the data may not be used for any purpose other than conducting the search; provided that use of the data shall not be so limited if the search is conducted pursuant to a warrant."

     SECTION 4.  Section 711-1111, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:

     "(1)  A person commits the offense of violation of privacy in the second degree if, except in the execution of a public duty or as authorized by law, the person intentionally:

    (a)   Trespasses on property for the purpose of subjecting anyone to eavesdropping or other surveillance in a private place;

    (b)   Peers or peeps into a window or other opening of a dwelling or other structure adapted for sojourn or overnight accommodations for the purpose of spying on the occupant thereof or invading the privacy of another person with a lewd or unlawful purpose, under circumstances in which a reasonable person in the dwelling or other structure would not expect to be observed;

    (c)   Trespasses on property for the sexual gratification of the actor;

    (d)   Installs or uses, or both, in any private place, without consent of the person or persons entitled to privacy therein, any means or device for observing, recording, amplifying, or broadcasting sounds or events in that place other than another person in a stage of undress or sexual activity;

    (e)   Installs or uses outside a private place any device for hearing, recording, amplifying, or broadcasting sounds originating in that place which would not ordinarily be audible or comprehensible outside, without the consent of the person or persons entitled to privacy therein;

    (f)   Covertly records or broadcasts an image of another person's intimate area underneath clothing, by use of any device, and that image is taken while that person is in a public place and without that person's consent;

    (g)   Intercepts, without the consent of the sender or receiver, a message or photographic image by telephone, telegraph, letter, electronic transmission, or other means of communicating privately; but this paragraph does not apply to:

         (i)  Overhearing of messages through a regularly installed instrument on a telephone party line or an extension; or

        (ii)  Interception by the telephone company, electronic mail account provider, or telephone or electronic mail subscriber incident to enforcement of regulations limiting use of the facilities or incident to other operation and use;

    (h)   Divulges, without the consent of the sender or the receiver, the existence or contents of any message or photographic image by telephone, telegraph, letter, electronic transmission, or other means of communicating privately, if the accused knows that the message or photographic image was unlawfully intercepted or if the accused learned of the message or photographic image in the course of employment with an agency engaged in transmitting it; [or]

    (i)   Knowingly possesses materials created under circumstances prohibited in section 711-1110.9[.]; or

    (j)   Uses model aircraft or an unmanned aircraft system operated for commercial or business purposes to track a specific, identifiable person without the person's consent."

     SECTION 5.  Section 803-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§803-32  Purposes.  The power of granting this writ is one in the exercise of which much is necessarily left to the discretion of the magistrate, but, except in cases where this power is elsewhere specially granted by statute, search warrants can be granted only for the following purposes:

     (1)  To seize any article or thing the possession of which is prohibited by law;

     (2)  To discover property taken by theft or under false pretenses, or found and fraudulently appropriated;

     (3)  To seize forged instruments in writing, or counterfeit coin intended to be passed, or the instruments or materials prepared for making them;

     (4)  To seize arms or munitions prepared for the purpose of insurrection or riot;

     (5)  To discover articles necessary to be produced as evidence or otherwise on the trial of any one accused of a criminal offense[.];

     (6)  To conduct aerial surveillance of a specified person or the property of a specified person without the person's consent."

     SECTION 6.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 7.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 8.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Privacy; Aeronautics

 

Description:

Requires individual consent or a search warrant to track an individual through the use of unmanned aircraft systems.  Prohibits the repurposing of data without a search warrant.  Prohibits unmanned aircraft systems from carrying weapons onboard.  Requires the police departments to implement guidelines of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Aviation Committee.

 

 

 

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