STAND. COM. REP. NO. 535

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.R. No. 10
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R.
No. 10 entitled:

     "SENATE RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING POLICIES FOR THE LEGISLATIVE
     BROADCAST PROGRAM'S CABLECASTS OF SENATE PROCEEDINGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to establish policies for
the legislative broadcast program's cablecasts of Senate
proceedings.

     The resolution sets forth standards on project
responsibility, distribution, programming content, editing,
ownership, and use of programming.  Your Committee finds that the
broadcast project has been ongoing since 1994, and that public
response to it has been favorable.  The Legislature has an
affirmative duty to increase public access to, and participation
in, the legislative process.  The standards set forth in the
resolution will enable public access to this process in a
responsible context.  Testimony was received in favor of the
resolution from Common Cause Hawaii.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 10 and
recommends its adoption.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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