Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 659 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to transfer the responsibility for the sale and distribution of the House of Representatives and Senate journals from the Lieutenant Governor's office to the Legislature.

Your Committee finds that the responsibility of preparing and publishing the journals of the House of Representatives and the Senate rests with each respective house of the Legislature. After the journals are published by the Legislature, complimentary copies are distributed to select government offices. Any remaining copies are then forwarded to the Lieutenant Governor's office for sale to the public.

Your Committee further finds that the Lieutenant Governor's office has been selling these extra copies for $100 to certain law firms, well below the actual $550 cost of producing the journals.

By transferring the responsibility of selling and distributing the House of Representatives and Senate journals from the Lieutenant Governor's office to the Legislature, this bill would allow the Legislature to not only sell the journals at a more reasonable price, but also provide a fairer process to allow all interested parties to purchase the journals.

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. 659 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.