STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2284

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2780

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2780 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make miscellaneous technical amendments to update language and facilitate library operations, including amending provisions related to the detention of public library materials and administration of the library fee for enhanced services special fund.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Public Library System. Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii's public libraries offer many public benefits, including acting as community gathering places where learning happens and knowledge is shared. Many members of the public, including children and kupuna, rely on the public library system, which necessitates the need for the system to operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.

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. 2780, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2780, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair