STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1156

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1156
                                     S.D. 2
                                     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 S.B. No.
1156, S.D. 2, 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 allow the Board of Education
to impose a cost-recovery fee of not more than $10 as a result of
any action taken to enforce the collection of costs of lost books
and any over due fines and fees charged to a library patron, as
well as imposing fees for other administrative costs.

     The Hawaii State Public Library System testified in support
of the bill.  The Collection Agencies Program of the Department
of Commerce and Consumer Affairs commented on the bill.
Informational Services testified in opposition to the bill.

     Your Committee finds that library patrons need incentives to
return borrowed materials to the library and to pay fines and
fees on a timely basis.  

     Your Committee has amended the bill by:

     (1)  Inserting language that will allow the State Public
          Library System to actually implement the collection
          provisions; and


 
 
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     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for
          clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education that are attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1156, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1156, S.D.
2, 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