STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2092

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2773

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2773 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIBRARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make housekeeping amendments to chapter 312, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to accurately reflect long-standing Board of Education and Hawaii State Public Library System practices.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Public Library System and Department of Human Resources Development.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to align chapter 312, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with the actual practices of the Board of Education and Hawaii State Public Library System.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2773, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2773, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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JILL TOKUDA, Chair