STAND. COM. REP. NO. 261

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1009
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1009 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $34,500 for a
pilot streaming media project to allow legislative sessions to be
broadcast in streaming media format via the internet.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the University of Hawai`i, the Office of Economic
Development of the County of Maui, and Akaku:  Maui Community
Television.

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawai`i is
already working with streaming media to upgrade distance learning
activities, and that the technology has great potential
statewide.

     Your Committee further finds that this technology is
particularly important for neighbor island and rural areas that
may not have access to cable television or other methods of
transmittal.  Your Committee is in support of this measure and
the new opportunities in citizen participation it will bring to
communities throughout Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this

 
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report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1009 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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