Bill Text: HI HB2505 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Accounting and General Services; Access Hawaii Committee Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-12 - (S) Act 101, 5/12/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 559). [HB2505 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2505-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2802

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2505

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2505, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ACCESS HAWAII COMMITTEE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Access Hawaii Committee special fund for the purpose of supporting the Access Hawaii Committee's responsibilities.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will enable the Access Hawaii Committee to exercise the provision in the Access Hawaii portal manager contract that assesses the contractor a monthly fee to cover the Access Hawaii Committee's administrative and operational overhead costs.  Without this special fund, the Access Hawaii Committee cannot collect the fees, and oversight of portal activities will not be as effective as it could be.

 

     Your Committee is supportive of enhanced oversight of the portal as a means of improved public access to governmental information and services by participating state and county departments and agencies.  In addition, this measure will have no effect on the State's general fund budget, as the moneys will come from the portal manager.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring information on income and expenditures to be subject to legislative review and oversight in each budget submittal from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2505, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2505, 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 Economic Development and Technology,

 

		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair