CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 187

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2017

RE:    H.B. No. 475

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 475, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOVIE THEATRES,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Make permanent Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015 (Act 39), which established the requirement that movie theaters must, under certain conditions and circumstances, provide open movie captioning and audio descriptions of motion pictures; and

     (2)  Authorize a public accommodation that owns, leases, leases to, or operates a motion picture theater in the State to provide a personal closed captioning system for a motion picture that is produced and offered with closed captioning content.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that a public accommodation that owns, leases, leases to, or operates a motion picture theater in more than two locations in the State shall provide:

          (A)  Open movie captioning during at least one showing per week of each motion picture that is produced and offered with open movie captioning; or

          (B)  A personal closed captioning system that is produced and offered with closed captioning content;

     (2)  Extending the sunset date of Act 39 to January 1, 2020; and

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct a survey and report to the Legislature on the operational and financial impact that Act 39 has had on movie theaters that are required to comply with Act 39 and any other relevant matters resulting from Act 39.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 475, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 475, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI Chair	____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA Co-Chair
____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER Co-Chair	____________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE Co-Chair
____________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN Co-Chair