STAND. COM. REP. NO.616

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1242

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1242 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAIR ACCESS FOR STATE GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of the Governor and the Legislature to ensure fair access by residents on neighbor islands and in rural Oahu to government information.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the League of Women Voters of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that access to government has improved over the years, especially for those citizens with internet access. Your Committee recognizes, however, that many citizens on neighbor islands or in rural Oahu do not have convenient access to computers and would benefit from innovative solutions that could be devised by a Statewide Fair Access Commission or by the Joint Legislative Access Committee.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1242 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair