STAND. COM. REP. NO. 263

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1156
                                        S.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 S.B. No. 1156 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 measure is to grant the Board of
Education the authority to establish a fee to be added to
delinquent patron accounts at the time they are referred to a
collection agency.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Hawaii State Public Library System.  Testimony in opposition to
this measure was submitted by Information Services.

     Your Committee finds that in these hard economic times, it
is important that all State agencies be especially mindful of
their expenditures.  While the Hawaii State Library System has
implemented a system to recover fees and materials from
delinquent patrons, the time and effort the system devotes in
attempting to recover these fees and materials have not been
recognized.  This measure provides for an additional
administrative fee to be charged to delinquent patrons, which
will help restore the loss of moneys owed to the libraries from
administrative expenses.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to require the Board
of Education to prescribe procedures for the notification of

 
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persons with delinquent accounts of these additional fees which
are not to exceed $10.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were
also made to change the formatting of this measure to the
preferred drafting style.

     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
of S.B. No. 1156, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1156,
S.D. 1, 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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