STAND. COM. REP. NO. 774-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2194
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2194, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to further enhance public access
to the Legislature by:

     (1)  Appropriating funds for a Legislative Media Streaming
          Pilot Project to allow public access via the Internet;

     (2)  Appropriating funds to establish a pilot program to
          provide childcare so that parents of young children can
          participate in the legislative process; and

     (3)  Transferring the responsibility for statutory sale and
          distribution from the Lieutenant Governor to the
          Legislature.

     The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, the Hawaii Chapter of
the National Rainbow Coalition, Common Cause Hawaii, and Hawaii
Clean Elections testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii
State Commission on the Status of Women  and the Office of the
Lieutenant Governor testified in support of the intent of  the
bill.  The Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:


 
 
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     (1)  Reducing the appropriation for the Legislative
          Streaming Media Pilot Project to $1 for purposes of
          further discussion;

     (2)  Requiring LRB to perform the functions of, among other
          things, sale and distribution of all legislative
          publications, including but not limited to session
          laws, supplements, and replacement volumes, and the
          recordation of all legislative and gubernatorial acts;

     (3)  Clarifying that the purpose of Part III is to transfer
          from the Lieutenant Governor to the Legislature the
          sale and distribution of all legislative publications 

     (4)  Appropriating an unspecified dollar amount to the
          Legislature to transfer the sale and distribution of
          all legislative publications from the Lieutenant
          Governor to the Legislature and changing the fiscal
          year to 2001-2002; and

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of 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 H.B. No.
2194, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2194, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair