STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2633

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2235

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2235, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to incorporate the recommendations of the Hawaii Broadband Task Force in the Hawaii State Plan (Chapter 226, Hawaii Revised Statutes) to promote broadband services as critical infrastructure for communications.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the University of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is in alignment with the Governor’s Hawaii Broadband Initiative.  Encouraging broadband communication development is important to the State's educational, economic, social, cultural, and healthcare services well-being, and this measure establishes a forward-looking vision for the State's economy to become globally competitive.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Department Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's annual report to the Governor and the Legislature shall be submitted not later than twenty days prior to the convening of each Regular Session of the Legislature from the years 2013 to 2020; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity 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. 2235, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2235, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair