STAND. COM. REP. NO. 899

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 887

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 887, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide the High Technology Development Corporation with the authority to establish high technology parks and provide for a governance structure for each park.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Defense, Hawaii Pacific University, and the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.  Written comments on this measure were received from the High Technology Development Corporation.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will strengthen the critical infrastructure, resilience, and safety of the State through increased broadband internet capabilities.

     Your Committee, with the prior concurrence of the Committee on Economic Development and Technology, has amended this measure by deleting its provisions and adding new provisions that:

(1)  Amend the definition of "industrial park" under chapter 206M, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the High Technology Development Corporation, to include broadband cable landing and connectivity infrastructure facility development;

(2)  Require the Board of Directors of the High Technology Development Corporation to establish advisory subcommittees for industrial parks with broadband cable landing and connectivity infrastructure facility; and

(3)  Require the Board of Directors to submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor in 2016 on the formation of the advisory subcommittees and their plans to develop industrial parks in conjunction with broadband cable landing and connectivity infrastructure facilities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 887, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 887, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair