STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2302

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2800
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Economic
Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 2800 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TELECOMMUNICATIONS
     AND INFORMATION ACT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal chapter 206P,
Hawaii Revised Statutes, which established the Hawaii Information
Network Corporation.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committees find that the purpose of chapter 206P, known
as the Hawaii Telecommunications and Information Act, was to
encourage the development and growth of the information industry
in Hawaii in accordance with sound business principles and
practices.

     Your Committees agree that because the Hawaii Information
Network Corporation was officially closed on July 1, 1995, and
there are no plans to resurrect or fund the organization, chapter
206P is no longer necessary.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Economic Development
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2800 and recommend that

 
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it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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