STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2314

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3132
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred S.B. No. 3132 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish an information
technology initiative special fund.

     In addition, this bill requires that percentages of the
budgets from the State, Department of Education, and University
of Hawaii be allocated to fund technology in state government and
increases the amount to a level of unspecified percentages by
2005.  This bill also requires state agencies to make budgets and
reports available online.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Governor's Special Advisor on Technology Development, Department
of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii Public Library,
University of Hawaii, and High Technology Development
Corporation.  Testimony in opposition to the measure was received
from the Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii was one of the pioneers in
legislative access through electronic technology.  However, in
recent years, general funding for information technology has
declined substantially.  Consequently, effective government
services for the development of digital infrastructures have been
impacted.

 
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     Your Committee agrees that funds for an information
technology initiative special fund to enable state agencies to
provide services or make information available online in order to
improve delivery of these services are needed.

     Your Committee amended the measure by deleting the paragraph
in section 3 that required an allocation based on the University
of Hawaii budget.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 3132, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3132,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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