STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1060

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1168
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1168, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LIBRARY ENHANCED SERVICES
     PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to continue the fee for
enhanced services program by extending the repeal date of Act
327, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 1993, from July 1, 1999, to
July 1, 2002.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Hawaii State Public Library.

     Your Committee finds that Act 327, SLH 1993, was enacted to
provide the library system with an alternative, additional source
of revenue, enabling libraries to provide enhanced services to
the public.  As a result of declining general operating fund
support, the fees collected are currently being used for much-
needed purchases of library materials.  Your Committee notes that
a 1998 Auditor's report found the enhanced services program has
been successful, and that library patrons support this effort to
provide quality service.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of H.B. No. 1168, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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