STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1388

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1641
                                     S.D. 2




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.
1641, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the state librarian
to include more detailed information of the status of the
libraries special fund and the library fee for enhanced services
special fund in the state librarian's annual report to the
legislature.

     Your Committee finds that the legislature is the pivotal
overseer of the way many funds are spent and that agencies'
annual reports serve as the information source for this
oversight.  In this bill, requiring more detail from the state
librarian will give the legislature a better picture of where
moneys are coming from, where these moneys are being allocated,
and where the funds stand each year on June 30.  The legislature
will also learn more about individual libraries and their
respective financial status in terms of receipts and
expenditures. 

     Your Committee recognizes that libraries have been hit hard
by the current budgetary restrictions.  More detailed annual
reports about our libraries' financial condition can assist the

 
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legislature in its future deliberations concerning library
finances.

     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. No.
1641, S.D. 2, 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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