STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2305

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2907
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2907 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the operation
of the literacy and lifelong learning program is performed by the
public libraries in the State and to repeal the sections on
public-private partners for the literacy trust fund and the
advisory alliance for literacy and lifelong learning.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Hawaii State Public Library System.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii State Public Library
System has subsumed literacy programs into a central office of
the Library Development Services.  Accordingly, duties of the
state librarian, as provided in section 312-8, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, should be amended to reflect this change.
Additionally, sections 312-9 and 312-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
should be repealed because they are no longer necessary.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by repealing section
312-8(a)(5), Hawaii Revised Statutes, as no longer necessary
since it refers to section 312-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which
the measure repeals.


 
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     Your Committee also made technical, nonsubstantive
amendments for style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2907, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2907,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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