Representative Jon Riki Karamatsu
Written Remarks
Senate Bill 2803, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1
Relating to Personal Information (Identity Theft)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
I rise in support.
The purpose of this bill is to protect the personal information collected and maintained by state and county agencies through the implementation of the recommendations of the “Hawaii Identity Theft Task Force Report” of December 2007. I served on the task force and through this bill we hope to reduce identity theft. The bill:
(1) Requires each state and county agency to designate an employee to ensure the agency's compliance with requirements relating to the security of personal information;
(2) Establishes the Information and Privacy Security Council to be placed administratively within the Department of the Attorney General and appropriates funds for three staff analyst positions to support the Council;
(3) Changes the effective date of Chapter 487J, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to social security number protection, to July 1, 2009;
(4) Requires conditions on third party personal information use to be included in contracts between government agencies and third parties that provide support services on behalf of the agency;
(5) Requires state and county agencies responsible for human resource functions to develop and distribute to agencies, guidelines to minimize unauthorized access to personal information;
(6) Requires state and government agencies to develop a written policy regarding notification of security breaches of personal information; and
(7) Defines the terms: “government agency,” “personal information,” “personal information system,” “records,” and “security breach.”
The current draft of this bill was amended to take out the requirement that:
(5) Requires state and county agencies that collect, maintain, or disseminate documents with personal information to:
(A) Develop and implement a plan to protect the personal information; and
(B) Develop a written plan to eliminate unnecessary collection and use of social security numbers;
Thank you.
JON RIKI KARAMATSU 