STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1248-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2885

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 2885, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADVANCING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position in the Legislative Reference Bureau's Public Access Room to provide educational outreach and engagement with all schools in the State.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Commission to Promote and Advance Civic Education, Common Cause Hawaii, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and nine individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Legislative Reference Bureau.

Your Committee finds that the Public Access Room is well positioned to further civic engagement with the Legislature in Hawaii's schools. However, the Public Access Room lacks resources to provide outreach services in addition to the services it currently provides. This measure will afford the Public Access Room the staffing it needs to promote and advance civic education with all schools in the State.

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

Should your Committee on Finance decide to hear this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider the appropriation amount necessary to fund the position and consider whether the position should be a civil service position.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2885, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2885, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

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DALE T. KOBAYASHI, Chair