STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO.1427

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 659

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 659 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE JOURNALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer responsibility for the sale and distribution of legislative journals from the Lieutenant Governor to the Senate and House of Representatives.

Specifically, this bill:

(1) Makes each house of the Legislature responsible for the publication, sale, and distribution of their respective legislative journals;

(2) Requires the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to fix the price of their respective legislative journals and determine who shall receive their respective legislative journals free of charge; and

(3) Allows money received from the sale of the legislative journals to be used by each house of the Legislature to defray any and all expenses of their respective houses.

Your Committee finds that the sale and distribution of the House and Senate journals are more appropriately placed with their respective legislative bodies.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means 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 Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair