Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3173 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funding to bring the state library system into more complete compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Your Committee received comments on the measure from the Hawaii State Public Library System.

Your Committee finds that Americans with disabilities deserve access to the world of information and entertainment offered by libraries equal to that of other people. By bringing the state library into more complete compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, this access would be improved.

Your Committee has amended the measure by funding the initiative with general obligation bonds instead of general revenue.

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. 3173, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3173, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.