Bill Text: HI SB2435 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Telephone-based Audible Information Access Service; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 199, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). [SB2435 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2435-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2583

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2435

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2435 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMATION ACCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind Division of the Department of Human Services to contract for a telephone-based audible information access service.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Department of Human Services and the National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that many persons in Hawaii have visual disabilities, and while it may not be practical for the State to provide time-sensitive printed materials in formats such as braille, large print, and audio recordings, another option is to provide telephone-based audible information access services for persons who are visually impaired.  This measure provides funds to maintain a telephone-based audible information access service.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the specific amount appropriated to promote further discussion of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2435, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2435, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair