STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3618

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 27

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.R. No. 27 entitled:

"REQUESTING THAT THE HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM CONVENE A TASK FORCE TO IDENTIFY AND RECOMMEND STANDARDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALL-ELECTRONIC PROCESS FOR MAINTAINING GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CREATED BY STATE AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request that the Hawaii State Public Library System convene a task force to identify and recommend standards for the development of an all-electronic process for maintaining government publications created by state agencies.

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

Your Committee finds that due to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and the limited timeframe being faced by the Legislature to act in response, measures are necessary to provide the Senate with the ability to gather relevant information from the Governor and the executive agencies. These measures further urge that actions be taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that requests the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to provide to the Senate a formal plan and monthly accounting for federal funds allocated to the agency to address the Coronavirus pandemic. The measure requests the first report to be provided to the Senate no later than June 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 27, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 27, S.D. 1.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair