Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 138, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that residents in rural communities have access to information that can be found in library resources by appropriating funds to support the Hawaii State Public Library bookmobiles.

Friends of the Libraries, Kona, Hanalei Watershed Hui, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii State Public Library System supported the intent of this measure.

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. 138, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.