STAND. COM. REP. NO. 744
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 1547
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1547, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to address the issue of public access to state government, including the legislative and judicial branches of government.
Specifically, this measure:
(1) Allows the Governor to appoint a Fair Access Commission to review, evaluate, and make recommendations for improving the level of access to government by residents on the neighbor islands and rural Oahu;
(2) Authorizes the Joint Legislative Access Committee to review, evaluate, and make recommendations to the presiding officers of the Legislature for improving the level of access to legislative proceedings; and
(3) Requires the Legislature and Judiciary to ensure fair access to information, services, and proceedings for both the legislative and judicial branches.
Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by two individuals. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the Office of Information Practices.
Your Committees find that this measure also requires the Legislature and Judiciary to take steps to ensure fair access to information, services, and proceedings within these branches of government.
Your Committees have amended this measure by making the effective date defective in order to promote continuing discussion on this measure.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1547, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1547, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
____________________________ COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair |
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