STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1828

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 654
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
654, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase public access to the
legislative process by:

     (1)  Appropriating funds to relocate the Public Access Room
          (PAR), and for electronic equipment and furniture
          purchases;

     (2)  Requiring the Legislative Analyst to review all
          performance-based budgets submitted to the Legislature
          by law;

     (3)  Removing from the duties of the Lieutenant Governor the
          recordation of all legislative and gubernatorial acts,
          and the sale and distribution of session laws,
          supplements, and replacement volumes, and placing these
          duties with the Legislature and the Legislative
          Reference Bureau (LRB); and

     (4)  Appropriating funds to establish an additional full-
          time position for PAR.


 
 
 
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     Common Cause Hawaii and Life of the Land testified in
support of this measure.  The Office of the Lieutenant Governor
testified in support of the intent, and LRB commented on Part III
of this measure.  The Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance,
GST Telecom Hawaii, the Organ Donor Center of Hawaii,
BOATS/Hawaii Inc., Uyeoka Consulting, Information Services, the
Conservation Council for Hawaii, NAMI OAHU, the Hawaii State
Parent, Teacher, and Student Association, and several individuals
testified in support of Parts I and IV of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Retaining only the provision to appropriate funds to
          establish an additional full-time staff position for
          PAR;

     (2)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount for
          further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity
          and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
654, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 654,
S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair