STAND. COM. REP. NO.  180

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 361

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 361 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Authorize the Governor to establish a Fair Access Commission; and

 

     (2)  Require both the Fair Access Commission and the Joint Legislative Access Committee to review, evaluate, and make recommendations for improving the level of access by neighbor island and rural Oahu residents to proceedings, information, and services of government.

 

     A few individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Office of Information Practices provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Judiciary shall determine which of its records are non-administrative records that are not subject to the Uniform Information Practices Act; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 361, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 361, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair