STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3002

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2566
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2566, H.D. 2, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the operation
of the literacy and lifelong learning program is performed by the
public libraries in the State and to repeal the sections on
public-private partners for the literacy trust fund and the
advisory alliance for literacy and lifelong learning.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Hawaii State Public Library System.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii State Public Library
System has subsumed literacy programs into a central office of
the Library Development Services.  Accordingly, duties of the
state librarian, as provided in section 312-8, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, should be amended to reflect this change.  Your
Committee has amended this measure by deleting as unnecessary
section 312-8(a)(3), HRS, requiring the library to serve as a
clearinghouse for information as unnecessary.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of H.B. No. 2566, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 2566, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

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



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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