Bill Text: HI SB1564 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Public Records.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [SB1564 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB1564-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 92-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§92-21 Copies of records; other
costs and fees. Except as otherwise
provided by law, a copy of any government record, including any map, plan,
diagram, photograph, photostat, or geographic information system digital data
file[, which] that is open to the inspection of the public, shall
be furnished to any person applying for the [same] copy of the
government record by the public officer having charge or control thereof,
in the format requested, upon the payment of the reasonable cost of
reproducing such copy[.]; provided that the format requested is
available. Except as provided in
section 91-2.5, the cost of reproducing any government record, except
geographic information system digital data, shall not be less than 5 cents per
page, sheet, or fraction thereof. The cost
of reproducing geographic information system digital data shall be in
accordance with rules adopted by the agency having charge or control of that
data. Such reproduction cost shall
include but shall not be limited to labor cost for search and actual time for
reproducing, material cost, including electricity cost, equipment cost,
including rental cost, cost for certification, and other related costs. All fees shall be paid in by the public
officer receiving or collecting the same to the state director of finance, the
county director of finance, or to the agency or department by which the officer
is employed, as government realizations; provided that fees collected by the
public utilities commission pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the
public utilities commission special fund established under section
269-33."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Public Records; Copies of Records; Costs and Fees
Description:
Allows a requestor of a public record to receive the public record in the format of their choice; provided that the format that is being requested is available.
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