STAND. COM. REP. NO.  216

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1054

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 1054 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VIDEOCONFERENCING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide for videoconferencing of legislative committee hearing testimony from the County of Hawaii by requiring the House of Representatives to coordinate with the County of Hawaii to develop rules for the implementation of a pilot videoconferencing program.

 

     The Office of Information Management & Technology; Common Cause Hawaii; Hawaii Alliance for Nonprofit Organizations; and three concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1054, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1054, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair