STAND. COM. REP. NO.3322

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.R. No. 102

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 102 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LONG-TERM PLAN FOR THE LEGISLATIVE BROADCAST PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request that the Joint Legislative Access Committee develop and adopt a long-term plan for the legislative broadcasting program, which includes a facility and infrastructure plan.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from The League of Women Voters, Akaku: Maui Community Television, and Hawaii Public Access Media.

Your Committee finds that the legislative broadcast program is vital to citizen participation and knowledge regarding the Hawaii State Legislature. Since the program began in 1994, new technologies offer more effective opportunities for public access to the legislative process.

Your Committee is strongly supportive of the plan outlined in this measure. Expanded technology – and greater public expectations regarding access to information – make this plan both timely and critical to the continued success of the program.

Your Committee has amended this measure to:

(1) Add reference to Akaku: Maui Community Television in the fourth WHEREAS section;

(2) Add references to problems of neighbor island coverage in the sixth WHEREAS and in a new seventh WHEREAS section;

(3) Change the Joint Legislative Access Committee to the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) and add LRB to the list receiving a certified copy of the measure;

(4) Reorder the components of the long-term plan to make an increase in neighbor island access the first priority, and expand on that component; and

(5) Add an additional BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED clause to include participation of neighbor island access organizations.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 102, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 102, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair