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 S.B. No. 1381, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) to operate the Kapolei Public Library.

The Board of Education, HSPLS, and Estate of James Campbell submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that the Kapolei Public Library is a vital resource and a state-of-the-art facility that has gone unused because no funding has been available. This bill will enable HSPLS to complete the library's collection and pay for maintenance, staffing, equipment, furniture, and other critical needs to allow the library to serve the public.

Your Committee has amended this bill by specifying that the emergency funding shall be expended solely to open and operate the Kapolei Public Library.

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 S.B. No. 1381, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1381, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.