Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2792, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to maintain more effectively a safe environment for library patrons and employees by transferring public safety functions and employees from the Department of Public Safety (PSD) to the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Public Library System.

PSD and the State Librarian testified in support of the measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2792, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.