Bill Text: HI HB1555 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 1555 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To Social Media.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-28 - Referred to LMG, FIN, referral sheet 6 [HB1555 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-HB1555-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1555
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to social media.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. (a) There is established within the department of accounting and general services, the legislative social media task force. The task force shall study the following issues relating to the use of social media platforms in the legislative process, including:

(1) The technological possibility of testifiers offering their testimony to the legislature through recorded broadcasts or live video;

(2) The current capability of the State and the legislature's information technology infrastructure in relaying testimonies through recorded broadcasts or live video;

(3) The estimated cost of upgrading the State and legislature's information technology infrastructure so that it may relay testimonies through recorded broadcasts or live video, if the State and legislature's information technology infrastructure is currently not able to do so; and

(4) Any other issues of concern to the task force.

(b) The chief information officer, or the officer's designee, shall be the chair of the legislative social media task force. The task force shall include members selected by the chief information officer who have knowledge, training, or experience in information technology and communications; provided that the senate president and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each appoint at least one member to the task force.

(c) The members of the task force shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses, including travel expenses, incurred for service on the task force. No member of the task force shall be made subject to section 84-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, solely because of that member's participation on the task force.

(d) The task force shall convene no later than thirty days after the effective date of this Act.

(e) The task force shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2020.

(f) The legislative social media task force shall dissolve on June 30, 2020.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Task Force; Social Media; Legislative Process

Description:

Establishes a task force to study the uses of social media platforms in the legislative process.

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