Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2605, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure fairness and equity among operators of the one call center by allowing a cable operator that pays annual fees to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) to petition DCCA for approval to apply its one call center fees as credit toward its annual fee payments.

Oceanic Time Warner Cable supported this bill. DCCA submitted comments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2605, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.