Report Title:
Auditor; Web Audit; Capitol Web Page
Description:
Requires the auditor to do a website audit of legislature's website. Appropriates funds for the legislature to reimburse the auditor for costs of conducting web audit, including the auditor's contract with a consultant pursuant to procurement code.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
2167 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the legislature.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that its own website at
www.capitol.hawaii.gov contains a wealth of information concerning legislative documents and their status, committee hearings and members, conference committee hearings and members, and bill status that is available to the public, as well as to staff and members of the legislature. This information is available, however, in a read only format for obvious security reasons.The legislature finds that although its capitol website page may have met its original visual design or content requirement, technological changes may have prevented the pages from being accessible to its widest audience while providing the most desirable information or services. Because the Internet is not a static environment, a web audit should be performed to update a website at frequent intervals.
The purpose of this Act is to require the office of the auditor to perform a web audit of the legislature's home page at
www.capitol.hawaii.gov to assess how the site's functionality could be improved and how access by the general public could be increased or improved.SECTION 2. The auditor shall perform a web audit of the legislature's website at www.capitol.hawaii.gov. In conducting the web audit, the auditor shall consult with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives and may contract with an independent consultant in accordance with chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as necessary to assist the auditor in conducting the web audit. The web web audit shall include an evaluation of the legislature's website to eliminate any common web design mistakes and maximize the opportunities the website offers.
The auditor shall report findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature and the governor not less than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2007.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the Hawaii legislative publications special fund the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal year 2006-2007, for the legislature to reimburse the auditor for the costs of conducting the web audit required by this Act, including the auditor's contracting with an independent consultant pursuant to chapter l03D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as may be necessary to assist the auditor in conducting the audit.
SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the legislature for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.
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