STAND. COM. REP. NO. 812

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1138
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1138, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC
     BROADCASTING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for the orderly
transfer of the licenses, assets, responsibilities, and function
of the Hawaii Public Broadcasting Authority to the Hawaii Public
Television Foundation.

     The Hawaii Public Broadcasting Authority, a state created
entity is no longer a feasible way to provide public television.
This bill continues to implement a strategic plan presented
during the 1997 regular session to transfer the licenses, assets,
responsibilities, and functions to the private not-for-profit
501(c)(3) organization, Hawaii Public Television Foundation.  The
bill also gives the State of Hawaii the first right, at no cost,
to any equipment or asset that is discarded or nonusable by
Hawaii Public Television Foundation or the successor to public
broadcasting.

     Your Committee finds that this transfer is essential to
maintain quality public broadcasting in the State.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1138, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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