Bill Text: HI SB369 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Audiovisual Technology; Videoconferencing; Legislative Hearings; Testimony; Teleconferencing; Neighbor Islands ($)

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to LMG, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB369 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB369-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 753

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 369

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 369 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VIDEOCONFERENCING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Legislature to establish procedures enabling neighbor island residents to testify at legislative committee hearings through the use of audiovisual technology.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Office of Information Management and Technology, Occupy Hilo Media Team, and eleven individuals.  One individual submitted written comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that community involvement is critical to a well-run democracy.  Yet, many neighbor island residents do not participate in the legislative process due to the time and cost of traveling to Honolulu to attend legislative proceedings.  Your Committee further finds that establishing videoconferencing at legislative committee hearings will facilitate neighbor island resident participation in the legislative process.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and

 

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 369, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 369, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair