Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 906 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enhance public access to the legislative process by appropriating an unspecified sum of funds to provide audio and video transmission of legislative sessions and hearings on the Internet.

The Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Olelo Community Television testified in support of this bill.

A process known as "streaming media" or "webcasting" allows audio or video signals of an event to be transmitted through computer servers and broadcast on the Internet. Users can see or listen to the event wherever computers are available, including in public libraries, schools, and other public places. This service could result in increasing public access to the legislative process at a low cost to the State.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 906, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 906, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.