STAND. COM. REP. NO.  650-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2666

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2666 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERSONAL INFORMATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the amendment allowing a business to scan an individual's driver's license or identification card to verify age when providing age-restricted goods or services.

The Liquor Commission of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Liquor Control of the County of Kauai, Department of Liquor Control of the County of Maui, Hawaii Food Industry Association, and Seven-Eleven Hawaii, Inc. provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Office of Consumer Protection of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii provided testimony in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing reference to "the business" in the reasonable doubt standard that is applicable to the use of scanning for purposes of verifying the age of an individual attempting to purchase age-restricted goods or services.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2666, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2666, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair