Bill Text: HI SB473 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Documents; Electronic Copies

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB473 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB473-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 389

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 473

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 473 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COPIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Clarify that electronic copies shall be construed in the same manner as an original document for purposes of Chapter 1, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     (2)  Require that electronic copies are acceptable for all purposes as intended by the particular statute that references an original document or like terms, unless otherwise provided by that statute.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary; Office of Management and Technology; and Department of the Corporation Counsel, City and County of Honolulu.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committees find that the intent of this measure aligns with the State's Business and Information Technology/Information Resource Management Transformation Plan to move toward increased and improved electronic record keeping as outlined in the Digital Records Plan.  Your Committees further find that it can be useful and economical to use electronic copies in place of paper copies of documents.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 473 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Technology and the Arts and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

 

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair		____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair