STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2525

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3002

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. 3002 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIBRARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize public libraries to perform the services of a notary public for a fee.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Public Library System. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Association of Hawaii Notaries. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General

Your Committee finds that Hawaii State Public Library System staff have received requests for notary services, particularly in rural areas of the State. In order to provide this much needed service to the public, allowing the public libraries to charge a fee for performing notary services will help to offset expenses incurred from maintaining a notary commission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting language that specifies that the State Librarian shall have the ability to designate one or more public library employees to be a notary public;

(2) Adopting language proposed by the Department of the Attorney General that authorizes designated employees, upon duly qualifying and receiving commissions as notaries public in government service, to perform notary services in nongovernmental matters for fees to be deposited into the library fee for enhanced services special fund; and

(3) 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. 3002, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair