STAND. COM. REP. NO. 122-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1676

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Corrections, Military, & Veterans, to which was referred H.B. No. 1676 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DATA COLLECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that the sexual orientation and gender identity of persons processed for crimes be included in the systems of identification, if disclosed.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center, Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, and four individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary, Department of the Attorney General, and Stonewall Caucus for the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i.

Your Committee finds that this measure will help to standardize data collection on gender across the State and acknowledge transgender and non-binary categories in data reporting. Your Committee further finds that confidentiality concerns warrant including a limitation on the use of the data to ensure the data is kept confidential and used for statistical research and data analysis purposes only.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring that sexual orientation and gender identity information collected under this measure remain confidential and be used strictly for research purposes;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

Your Committee notes that there would be a cost to program and implement changes to collect the data subject to this measure and requests that subsequent committees hearing this measure consider incorporating an appropriation for system updates.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Corrections, Military, & Veterans that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1676, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Corrections, Military, & Veterans,

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TAKASHI OHNO, Chair