Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing and Science, Arts, and Technology, to which was referred S.R. No. 17 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge federal action against pornographic popup advertisements.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs testified in support of this measure.

Your Committees find that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the lead enforcement agency for the recently-enacted CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, has been engaged in extensive discussions with and is soliciting comments from interested parties on the anti-SPAM law. This month, the agency will hold a workshop to explore issues associated with the distribution and effects of software that asserts control over a computer without a consumer's knowledge.

Your Committees further find that this measure will help to convey to the agency the Legislature's concern about and request for action against unsolicited popup advertisements that expose Internet users, including children, to sexually explicit or inappropriate images.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing and Science, Arts, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 17 and recommend its adoption.