Bill Text: HI SB893 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB893 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB893-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1516

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 893

      S.D. 3

      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. 893, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide increased access to time-sensitive information to Hawaii residents with disabilities that prevent direct access of conventional print media by requiring the Disability and Communication Access Board (DCAB) to investigate the availability of quality telephone-based audible information access services and award a contract to one or more providers.  This measure also appropriates $80,000 from the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund to establish and maintain this service.

 

     Several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Human Services and DCAB provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Appropriating funds from the general fund rather than the Wireless Enhanced 911 Fund;

 

     (2)  Making unspecified the appropriation amounts; and

 

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

 

     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. 893, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 893, S.D. 3, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair