STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2305

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 36

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 36 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to consumer protection.

Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language that requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all channel designations and relocation of public, educational, and governmental access channels and allows cable operators to relocate or change the designation of public, educational, and governmental access channels only under certain conditions.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 36, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 36, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair