STAND. COM. REP. NO. 297-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2566
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
2566 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the structure of the
Hawaii State Library System's (Library) literacy programs, which
have been subsumed into a central office of the Library
Development Services.

     The Library supported this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this bill removes unnecessary
sections from the Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).  Section 312-9,
HRS, refers to a fund that is no longer under the control of the
Library and has been transfered to the Hawaii Community
Foundation.  The advisory council referred to in Section 312-10,
HRS, was never formed, and the corresponding fund was never
reported through to the Board of Education, making section 312-10
moot as well.  Furthermore, public libraries no longer receive
federal funds, which necessarily limits the scope of the
Library's literacy efforts. 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.


 
 
 
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     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 H.B. No.
2566, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2566, 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