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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SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT

 

 

FLOOR AMENDMENT NO.                                                     Date                                              

 

TO:     Senate Bill No. 893, S.D. 2

 

SECTION 1.  Senate Bill No. 893, S.D. 2, is amended by deleting Section 3 and replacing it with new language to read as follows:

 

"SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding any provision of section 138‑3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the contrary, there is appropriated out of the wireless enhanced 911 fund, the sum of $80,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2011-2012 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2012-2013 for deposit into the disability and communication access board special fund established pursuant to section 348F-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes."

 

            SECTION 2.  Senate Bill No. 893, S.D. 2, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

 

            "SECTION 4.  There is appropriated out of the disability and communication access board special fund the sum of $80,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2011-2012 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2012-2013 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a telephone-based audible information access service.

 

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the disability and communication access board for the purposes of this Act; provided that the appropriations authorized under this Act shall be expended on a contract for services with the Hawaii affiliate of a national organization that:

 

     (1)  Has affiliates in at least all fifty states; and

     (2)  Provides electronic services that provide blind, visually impaired, and print disabled persons with access to newspapers, magazines, and television listings twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, by means of a touch tone telephone, the Internet, or by downloading the electronic information to a digital talking book player or MP3 playing device."

 

            SECTION 3.  Senate Bill No. 893, S.D. 2, is amended by renumbering Sections 4 and 5 to Sections 5 and 6 respectively.

 

 

 

 

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