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. 1350 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for a demonstration project by the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) to install and maintain five Internet kiosks in sites throughout the State.

HSPLS submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that Internet kiosks would allow public libraries to provide access to library services at greatly reduced expense to the State. Furthermore, these kiosks could be located in places that do not have a library nearby, and where it would be extremely expensive to create an entirely new library facility.

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. 1350, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1350, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.