STAND. COM. REP. NO. 668

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

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




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1641, S.D. 1, 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 requiring greater detail from the
State Librarian about these funds and how moneys are allocated
and spent will give the Legislature closer oversight over these
special funds.  This function is important as the State continues
to make every penny count in the current tight economy.

     Your Committee amended this bill by deleting the paragraph
(7) being added to the reporting requirements for each fund,
which asked for information about the expenditure allotment by
individual libraries.  Your Committee finds that this information
is already required by paragraphs (2) and (6) of each of the
respective sections.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1641, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1641,
S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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