STAND. COM. REP. NO. 141________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1170
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
1170 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COST-RECOVERY FEES FOR
     DELINQUENT LIBRARY ACCOUNTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the board of
education to charge fees for administrative costs for collection
of lost books and overdue fines and fees, library system seminars
and workshops, and use of various research and reference
materials requiring special equipment to read.

     The Department of Education testified in support of the
bill.  Information Services testified in opposition to the bill.

     Your Committee finds that these fees will provide additional
and badly needed revenues for the library system and will be paid
by those using special services or who are delinquent in
returning borrowed materials.

     Your Committee amended this bill by authorizing the deposit
of revenues created by fees authorized in this bill into the
Libraries Special Fund, which currently receives revenues from
overdue fines.

     Notwithstanding that the substance of this bill may exceed
the scope of its title, your Committee finds that it still merits
further discussion.  The bill title problem can be remedied in
future deliberations.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1170, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1170, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair