STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1029-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2523
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to limit fees for copying state
and county government records to 25 cents per page.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
State Office of Information Practices, League of Women Voters,
and Common Cause Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that limiting copying fees to 25 cents
per page will balance the need for information by the public with
the cost of reproduction to government entities.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by leaving the
effective date blank.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2523, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.


 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair