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 S.B. No. 978 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that legislative proceedings of significant public interest are shown to viewers by requiring that the criteria for selecting the proceedings to be broadcast by the Legislative Broadcast Program shall be related to matters of public interest.

The League of Women Voters and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

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 S.B. No. 978 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.