STAND. COM. REP. NO. 767

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 646
                                        S.D. 1




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. 646, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the cost of copying
government records from 50 cents to not less than 6 cents per
page.

     Your Committee finds that public agencies collect and
maintain a variety of records about taxpayers, public and private
real property, agency decisionmaking, and rules.  An informed
public requires access to and occasionally, copies of these
records.  Your Committee supports the doctrine that citizen
access to government records should be facilitated rather than
curtailed.  This bill, by reducing the cost of copying public
records, will accomplish this policy.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
646, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 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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