STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1018

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1232

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1232 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARY SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Hawaii State Public Library System greater flexibility in certain aspects of its operations.

More specifically, the measure allows the state librarian to:

(1) Impose and collect rates, rents, fees, fines, and charges for the use of state library facilities, provided that contracting for concessions within a library facility shall not be subject to the requirements of section 102-147, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and revise these rates, rents, fees, fines, and charges with the approval of the Board of Education; and

(2) Prescribe procedures relating to certain costs, fines, and fees without regard to Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

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

Your Committee finds that this measure will simplify the Hawaii State Public Library System's process for updating fee schedules, which currently requires use of the administrative rulemaking process set forth in Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and thus would provide the public library system with the flexibility it needs to adjust its services in response to changing community needs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Correcting an erroneous reference to section 102-147, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to instead reference section 102-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which authorizes registered and permitted blind or visually disabled persons to operate vending facilities and machines in public buildings;

(2) Specifying that the statutory amendments made by this measure shall be repealed after five years;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(4) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1232, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1232, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair