Bill Text: HI SB2236 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 2236 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Special Purpose Revenue Bonds; Clearcom, Inc.; Hawaii Broadband Initiative

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 242, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1345). [SB2236 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2236-Amended.html

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 178-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2012

RE: S.B. No. 2236

H.D. 2

C.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2236, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Amend chapter 39A, part VI, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to authorize the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist utilities serving the general public in providing telecommunications (part I); and

(2) Authorize the issuance of up to $100,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Clearcom, Inc., or a partnership headed by Clearcom, Inc., with planning, permitting, designing, constructing, equipping, and operating broadband infrastructure throughout the State; and lapse the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds on June 30, 2017 (part II).

Your Committee on Conference finds that this measure will assist in the development of critical broadband infrastructure and is well aligned with the Hawaii broadband initiative's goals of providing affordable high speed communication through the State by 2018.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2012; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2236, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2236, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Co-Chair		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair
____________________________ KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Co-Chair		____________________________ MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Co-Chair