REPORT TITLE:
State Internet Portal


DESCRIPTION:
Establishes an oversight committee to be known as the Access
Hawaii Committee to review and approve the development and
operation of an Internet portal for electronic services and to
assist the public library system in providing access to the
portal.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE STATE INTERNET PORTAL.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Findings and purpose.  The legislature finds
 
 2 that the expansion of the Internet has fundamentally transformed
 
 3 society and the conduct of business.  In order to better serve
 
 4 citizens and businesses in the new economy, government must
 
 5 expand access to information and provide government services over
 
 6 the Internet, while ensuring Internet access points for everyone
 
 7 in order to reduce the "digital divide".
 
 8      The State has entered into a contract with a vendor to
 
 9 establish, develop, operate, maintain, and expand an Internet
 
10 portal for the purpose of increasing electronic access and
 
11 commerce among Hawaii residents, businesses, and government
 
12 entities.  At no cost to the State, the portal manager will
 
13 provide all necessary hardware, software, portal infrastructure,
 
14 administration, operation, systems analysis, programming,
 
15 delivery of services, training, marketing, collection and
 
16 distribution of payments, and a help desk.  With a portal manager
 
17 in place, additional electronic government applications should be
 
18 made available on a regular basis, with the state library system
 
19 providing primary access for citizens seeking Internet access.
 

 
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 1 In addition, electronic government services should be expanded
 
 2 through partnerships with entities such as the University of
 
 3 Hawaii and the department of education.
 
 4      All statutory fees collected by the portal manager on behalf
 
 5 of a government agency will be remitted in full to the government
 
 6 agency.  All charges for value added electronic services will be
 
 7 retained by the portal manager to pay for the core and ongoing
 
 8 costs of operating the portal as well as applications development
 
 9 costs associated with the deployment of standard and premium
 
10 services.
 
11      The purpose of this Act is (1) to establish a mechanism for
 
12 oversight of the portal manager and authorize the setting of
 
13 charges for value added electronic services that will be
 
14 collected by the portal manager; and (2) assist the public
 
15 library system in providing access to the Internet portal.
 
16      SECTION 2.  Definitions.  As used in this Act, unless the
 
17 context otherwise requires:
 
18      "Committee" means the Access Hawaii Committee.
 
19      "Government agency" means any government agency that stores,
 
20 gathers, or generates public information, including all branches
 
21 of government, all executive departments, boards, and commissions
 
22 of the State or counties, and all public corporations created by
 
23 the legislature.
 

 
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 1      "Internet" means the global information system that is
 
 2 logically linked together by a globally unique address space
 
 3 based on the Internet Protocol (IP), or its subsequent
 
 4 extensions; and that is able to support communications using the
 
 5 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite,
 
 6 or its subsequent extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols;
 
 7 and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either publicly or
 
 8 privately, information to users.
 
 9      "Internet portal" means the centralized electronic
 
10 information system by which public information is provided via
 
11 dial-in modem or continuous link to the public through
 
12 subscription or through public libraries.
 
13      "Portal manager" means the entity or person engaged to
 
14 manage and operate the Internet portal on behalf of the State of
 
15 Hawaii.
 
16      "Value added electronic services" means services including,
 
17 but not limited to:
 
18      (1)  Providing periodic, continual, and ongoing access to
 
19           information maintained by a government agency without
 
20           requiring separate requests for information as it is
 
21           created;
 
22      (2)  Compiling data or performing other research services;
 
23      (3)  Permitting the electronic filing of reports, renewals,
 
24           or applications; or
 

 
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 1      (4)  The ability to transact business over the Internet
 
 2           portal.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  Access Hawaii committee; establishment;
 
 4 membership; chairperson.(a)  There is established within the
 
 5 office of the governor, on a special and temporary basis, the
 
 6 Access Hawaii Committee, until June 30, 2003, at which time the
 
 7 committee shall cease to exist.
 
 8      (b)  The committee shall consist of twelve or more voting ex
 
 9 officio members, or designated representatives, including the
 
10 governor's special advisor for technology development, the
 
11 administrator of the information and communication services
 
12 division of the department of accounting and general services,
 
13 the administrator of the state procurement office, the director
 
14 of the office of information practices, up to three directors of
 
15 government agencies using or planning to use the services of the
 
16 portal, a member of the senate to be chosen by the president of
 
17 the senate, a member of the house of representatives to be chosen
 
18 by the speaker of the house, a representative of the judiciary to
 
19 be chosen by the chief justice, and the chief information
 
20 officers of the four counties.
 
21      (c)  The governor's special advisor for technology
 
22 development shall serve as the chairperson of the committee.
 
23      SECTION 4.  Duties of the committee.  (a)  The committee
 
24 shall provide oversight of the portal manager including:
 

 
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 1      (1)  Review of the annual strategic plan and periodic
 
 2           reports on potential new applications and services
 
 3           submitted by the portal manager;
 
 4      (2)  Review and approval of all charges to portal users;
 
 5      (3)  Review and approval of service level agreements
 
 6           negotiated by government agencies with the portal
 
 7           manager;
 
 8      (4)  Review of annual financial reports and audit of the
 
 9           portal manager;
 
10      (5)  Review of annual customer satisfaction surveys
 
11           conducted by the portal manager;
 
12      (6)  Review of performance measures of the portal submitted
 
13           as part of the service management plan for portal-wide
 
14           indicators and application specific indicators; and
 
15      (7)  Support to the Hawaii State Public Library System to
 
16           increase access to the Internet by the general public
 
17           and training for library employees in assisting the
 
18           public to use the portal for Internet access to value
 
19           added electronic services.
 
20      (b)  The committee shall assist the Hawaii state public
 
21 library system in providing access to the Internet portal and
 
22 advice on the following:
 
23      (1)  Being an avenue for distribution of access for the
 
24           public to the Internet for purposes of education and
 
25           information;
 

 
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 1      (2)  Installing Internet access computers, routers, and
 
 2           lines; and
 
 3      (3)  Providing Internet training in at least half of the
 
 4           public libraries.
 
 5      SECTION 5.  Annual report.  The committee shall submit an
 
 6 annual report on the operations of the portal and assistance
 
 7 provided to the Hawaii state public library system to the
 
 8 legislature twenty days prior to the convening of each regular
 
 9 legislative session.
 
10      SECTION 6.  Any statute to the contrary notwithstanding,
 
11 except for chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, government
 
12 agencies may charge for value added electronic services.  In the
 
13 event of a conflict with chapter 92F, the provisions of chapter
 
14 92F shall control questions of interpretation.
 
15      SECTION 7.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
16 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
17 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001, to
 
18 provide funding for the Hawaii state public library system for
 
19 Internet access computers and connections, digitalization
 
20 equipment, and Internet kiosks to provide the general public
 
21 greater access to information on the Internet.
 
22      SECTION 8.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
23 Hawaii state public library system for the purposes of this Act.
 
24      SECTION 9.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.