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. 638 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide an check-off box on state income tax returns allowing taxpayers to designate $2 from their income tax liability to support the Hawaii State Public Library Sytem (HSPLS).

HSPLS and the Department of Taxation submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Board of Education submitted comments on this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill will allow the public to support public libraries and provide HSPLS with a consistent supplementary source of income. Many people would like to help the public library system, if given an easy, convenient way to provide that support. The income tax check-off box is an excellent method to raise funds and awareness of HSPLS, by reaching a large number of people in Hawaii.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 638, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 638, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.