STAND. COM. REP. 756
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 997
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 997 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Allow the Legislature to establish policies, procedures, and fees for subscription services; and
(2) Define "subscription service" as a service by which a house of the Legislature provides a member of the public with printed sets of bills, resolutions, committee reports, hearing notices, orders of the day, referral sheets, and other printed documents and records of the Legislature.
The Chief Clerk's Office of the House of Representatives offered comments.
Your Committee recognizes the need to allow the Legislature to establish a reasonable fee for document printing services provided by the Legislature. Your Committee notes, however, that these fees may prove to be a burden on certain organizations, such as non-profit groups, who may possess limited financial resources.
Your Committee notes that one compromise solution involves the provision of one set of printed legislative documents free of charge, and then assessing fees for any additional sets of documents requested. Your Committee supports future legislative efforts to address this issue.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 997, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 997, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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