STAND. COM. REP. NO. 128-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2439
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2439 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

     H.B. No. 2439 was introduced as a short-form bill, that is
sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to
introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose
of the bill without specific details in long form.  

     Your Committee has amended the bill to provide the
substantive contents of the bill in long form so that a public
hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.  The
purpose of H.B. No. 2439, H.D. 1, is to transfer jurisdiction of
the regulation of all digital communication from the Public
Utilities Commission to the Department of Commerce and Consumer
Affairs. The language contained in H.B. No. 2439, H.D. 1 is
contained in various sections of H.B. No. 2901 - "A BILL FOR AN
ACT RELATING TO THE NEW ECONOMY."

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the action to
report out H.B No. 2439, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection and

 
 
 
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Commerce, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in
the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2439, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Consumer
                                   Protection and Commerce,



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair