Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2269, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that certain companies that provide telecommunication services are qualified businesses in enterprise zones.

Your Committee finds that this measure amends the definitions of "telecommunication services" and "qualified business" in section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to permit a business that provides telecommunication services to consumers to be a qualified business in an enterprise zone as long as a majority of the services it provides is within the enterprise zone within which it is established or to consumers in other enterprise zones.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2269, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2269, S.D. 2.