STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3182

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2307

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2307, S.D. 1, 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 that all state and state funded facilities have internet computer and wireless access filters to restrict access to pornography sites, except for the Department of the Attorney General and state‑owned housing and dormitories.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Education, and Hawaii Public Library System.

Your Committees find that the internet of today is full of pornographic content and the Children's Internet Protection Act requires all public schools and libraries receiving federal funds and providing internet access to use filters that restrict people from accessing pornography at those sites. This measure would require that all state offices and public facilities have internet computer and wireless access filters to restrict access to pornography sites.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Allowing the Department of the Attorney General to approve exemptions for good cause;

(2) Exempting those state offices and public facilities where exceptions are consistent with their written internet policy; and

(3) 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 Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2307, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2307, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair