Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1177 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to permit the opening and operation of the Kapolei Public Library.

The Hawaii State Public Library System, Estate of James Campbell, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Board of Education submitted comments on this bill.

Your Committee finds that the Kapolei Public Library has been unable to open since being constructed due to a lack of available funding for personnel, books, and various supplies. This bill will allow the library to:

Opening the Kapolei Public Library is an important goal of the State, but it should not adversely affect other libraries currently in operation. Your Committee intends that funding the Kapolei Public Library shall not cause funding for any other public library to be reduced.

Your Committee has amended this bill by including required language authorizing the appropriation to exceed the general fund expenditure ceiling.

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. 1177, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1177, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.