Bill Text: HI SB2543 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Technology; Broadband

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-30 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2543 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2543-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  865-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2543

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs and Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2543, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide Hawaii with competitively-priced access to broadband communications by:

 

     (1)  Giving the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs various duties relating to broadband deployment in Hawaii; and

 

     (2)  Promoting telework alternatives for public and private employees.

 

     AT&T and tw telecom supported this bill.  Oceanic Time Warner Cable supported this bill with amendments.  The High Technology Development Corporation supported the bill in part and commented.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs submitted comments.

 

     Access to affordable high-speed broadband services is essential if Hawaii is to meet the challenges of the 21^st century and become globally competitive.  To restore the House approach to the development and deployment of broadband in Hawaii, your Committees have amended this bill by replacing its contents with that of H.B. No. 2698, H.D. 2, a bill that passed out of both of your Committees earlier this session.

 

     As amended, this bill establishes the Hawaii Broadband Commission (Commission) and the Hawaii Broadband Commissioner to increase access to broadband communications for all households, businesses, and organizations throughout the state.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs and Consumer Protection & Commerce that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2543, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2543, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs and Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair