STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1155

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1154
                                     




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 S.B. No.
1154 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the life of the Board
of Education's fee for enhanced services program from July 1,
1999 to July 1, 2002.

     Your Committee finds that the program was originally enacted
in 1993 to require the Board of Education, through the State
Librarian, to provide for the establishment and ongoing operation
of a fee for enhanced service program.  The original intent of
the legislation was to enable the state library system to provide
enhanced services, over and above the library's core services.
Over the years, however, program revenues have assisted in
procuring basic core services.  Accordingly, in these years of
declining operating budget revenues, your Committee finds that
the program must be continued in order to allow the library
system to provide basic core services such as purchasing library
materials.

     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 S.B.

 
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No. 1154 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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

 
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