STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1028

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1209

       H.D. 1

       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 Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1209, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE BROADCAST PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the legislative broadcast program to make an audio or audiovisual recording of all public hearings and informational briefings held at the State Capitol;

 

     (2)  Require the legislative broadcast program to maintain an archive of the recordings, to be made available to the public; and

 

     (3)  Appropriate funds to be expended by the Legislative Reference Bureau for equipment, materials, and staff necessary to make the recordings of the public hearings and maintain the archive of the recordings.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Common Cause Hawaii and three individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Legislative Reference Bureau, Disability and Communication Access Board, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an appropriation amount of $3,000,000 and specifying that the appropriation shall be distributed in two equal shares of $1,500,000 to the Senate and the House of Representatives.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1209, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1209, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair