STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1425-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2354
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 S.B. No.
2354, S.D. 1, 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 public access to the
legislative process by:

     (1)  Appropriating funds for a legislative media streaming
          pilot project;

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

     (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
          Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Legislature.

     Common Cause Hawaii, Information Services, Life of the Land,
and several individuals supported this bill.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by:


 
 
 
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     (1)  Leaving blank all appropriations to facilitate further
          discussion;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2005; and 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes
          of style and clarity.

     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 S.B. No.
2354, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2354,
S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair