HB226 HSCR212

STAND. COM. REP. NO.212

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 226

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 226 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to transfer responsibility for the sale and distribution of legislative publications from the Lieutenant Governor to the Legislature.

In addition, this bill:

(1) Deletes the requirement that licensing fees, royalties, and other proceeds derived from the publication of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and other legislative publications be in an electronic format for purposes of depositing funds into the Hawaii legislative publications special fund;

(2) Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to perform the functions of sale and distribution of all legislative publications;

(3) Requires the Bureau to provide for the printing of session laws, supplements, and replacement volumes in both bound copies and on CD-ROM;

(4) Transfers from the Lieutenant Governor to the Bureau the recordation of all legislative and gubernatorial acts;

(5) Provides for the deposit of moneys from the sale of various legislative publications, including the journals of the House of Representatives and Senate, into the Hawaii legislative publications special fund; and

(6) Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to the Legislature to implement the transfer of responsibility of selling and distributing legislative publications from the Lieutenant Governor to the Legislature.

Your Committee agrees with the intent of this Act, and finds that consolidating the sale and distribution of legislative publications in the Legislature will result in the more efficient and cost-effective operation of the legislative branch.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 226 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

		____________________________ NATHAN SUZUKI, Chair