STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2466

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2307

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Government Operations and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2307 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE PROCUREMENT OF WIFI AND INTERNET SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require all state and state funded facilities to have internet computer and wireless access filters to block access to pornography sites.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office, Hawaii State Library System, and Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committees find that the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, which procures internet services for most executive branch agencies, has implemented policies that restrict pornographic and other inappropriate sites. However, internet access is controlled and supplied by third party service providers that work directly with the agencies. Your Committees further find that the Hawaii State Library System also has user policies and software to restrict access to inappropriate sites, which is of particular importance to the Library as some of the federal funds it receives is conditioned on its compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act. Additionally, your Committees note that the measure is not intended to interfere with free speech.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Referencing the Children's Internet Protection Act in the purpose section of the bill;

(2) Clarifying that the restrictions placed on access apply only to state office buildings and public facilities, such as the airport and do not apply to state-owned housing or dormitories;

(3) Removing the requirement that state-funded buildings or facilities follow the same restriction, as it may be overly broad;

(4) Specifying that this measure does not apply to the Attorney General's office because it has programs, such as the Internet Crimes Task Force, which will need access to such sites;

(5) Removing references to 103D and 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(6) Inserting this new policy by way of a new section in chapter 27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which relates to state functions and responsibilities as agencies may obtain internet services by means that do not require the use of the Hawaii Procurement Code; and

(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2307, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2307, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Technology,

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair

________________________________ LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair