Bill Text: HI SB583 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Cable Television Systems; PEG Access Organization; Olelo; Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-17 - (S) Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 611). [SB583 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB583-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1509

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 583

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 583, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to designate an access organization to oversee public, educational, or governmental-access channels on cable television.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, a member of the Maui County Council, Community Alliance on Prisons, Americans for Democratic Action/Hawaii, Olelo Community Media, Akaku:  Maui Community Television, Earth Foundation, Kihei Canoe Club, Maui Democratic Party, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.  The State Procurement Office and several concerned individuals submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing that the designation of an access organization shall be exempt from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code until July 1, 2015;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Auditor to contract for a performance review or audit of Olelo Community Television, and appropriating funds out of the Compliance Resolution Fund for this purpose;

 

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 583, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 583, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair