STAND. COM. REP. NO.369

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 426

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Science, Art and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 426 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the State to assess, inventory, and make available through a single state Internet website, various data collected by state government and other relevant agencies.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Information Consortium. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Department of Accounting and General Services submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds that state government agencies possess vast amounts of data that is collected as part of their operational responsibilities, but not necessarily analyzed nor inventoried outside of the respective agencies. Your Committee further finds that the New Economy, and the high technology industry in particular, is a data-driven and idea-based industry that could be greatly enhanced through the mining of this raw data for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a purpose section indicating the need for enhanced data collection and dissemination in support of Hawaii's "New Economy";

(2) Adding language to request that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in it's inventory, include data and indices related to the high technology industry; and

(3) Replacing the word "portal" with the word "website", throughout the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Science, Art and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 426, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 426, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Science, Art and Technology,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair