THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM

Senator Glenn Wakai, Chair

Senator Brian T. Taniguchi, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY

Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Chair

Senator J. Kalani English, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, March 15, 2019

TIME:

3:30 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 414

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 340, HD1

      (HSCR1104)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Appropriates funds to HTDC for the Small Business Innovation Research Program and Manufacturing Assistance Program.  Disallows HTDC grants to businesses that were awarded a competitive contract from the Department of Defense to research hydrodynamics and demand response.  Makes an appropriation into, and out of, the Alternative Energy Research and Development Revolving Fund for the purpose of providing grants.  (HB340 HD1)

 

EET/TEC, WAM

HB 821, HD2

      (HSCR1226)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

Authorizes DBEDT to enter into a public-private partnership to plan, build, and manage key strategic broadband infrastructure that benefits the State, including a cable landing station in Kakaako, on the island of Oahu, and to encourage cloud-based companies to take advantage of this infrastructure.  Exempts the station from certain state and county permitting and land use laws.  Appropriates funds.  (HB821 HD2)

 

TEC/EET, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Jarrett Keohokalole

Chair

 

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Senator Glenn Wakai

Chair