Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2445 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow board meetings to be conducted by teleconferencing.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Office of Information Practices, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, High Technology and Development Corporation, and Common Cause Hawaii.

This measure recognizes that board meetings are often more conveniently held by teleconferencing than videoconferencing, because of the general unavailability of specialized video equipment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by revising section 92-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to meeting by videoconferencing, to include telconferencing.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2445, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2445, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.