Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2254 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $40,000 for legislative media steaming to provide audio and video streaming of legislative proceedings over the Internet.

Your Committees received testimony in favor of the measure from Common Cause Hawaii, the League of Women Voters, and a private individual.

Your Committees find that public access to legislative proceedings is of the utmost importance. Considering the rapid proliferation of the Internet into the homes and workplaces of the general public, the Legislature must move proactively to disperse information through this new media.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2254 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.