STAND. COM. REP. NO. 995-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2354
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 Legislative Management, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2354, S.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 public access by:

     (1)  Appropriating funds for a legislative media streaming
          pilot project to allow public access to the Internet;

     (2)  Appropriating funds for a second full-time staff person
          for the Public Access Room (PAR);

     (3)  Appropriating funds for a child care pilot project; and

     (4)  Transferring responsibility for the sale and
          distribution of the Hawaii Revised Statutes from the
          Lieutenant Governor to the Legislature.

     The League of Women Voters, Hawaii's Thousand Friends,
Hawaii Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, and Information
Services supported this bill.  The Legislative Reference Bureau
supported the appropriation for staffing the PAR.  Common Cause
Hawaii supported appropriating funds for the legislative media
streaming pilot project, PAR staffing, and the child care pilot
project.


 
 
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     The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women supported the intent of this
bill.

     An individual raised concerns about funding additional staff
for the PAR and requested your Committee to consider using
student interns instead of hiring additional staff.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making the
provisions transferring responsibility for the sale and
distribution of the Hawaii Revised Statutes from the Lieutenant
Governor to the Legislature take effect on July 1, 2001.  This
will enable the Legislature to prepare for taking on its new
responsibilities.

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for
clarity, conformity, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2354, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2354, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Legislative
                                   Management,



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                                   EZRA KANOHO, Chair