STAND. COM. REP. NO. 610

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1157
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1157, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to waive the residency
requirement for the State Librarian.

     The bill also sets the Librarian's term at four years and
authorizes the Board of Education to set the Librarian's salary
until July 1, 2004.

     Your Committee finds that the bill provides the Board of
Education with more flexibility in recruiting a Librarian for the
State Library System.  This flexibility is necessary if the Board
is expected to recruit candidates of a higher professional
quality capable of performing the duties and responsibilities
required of an upper level management position.  This
flexibility, however, is tempered with a five-year drop-dead
clause to provide the Legislature with the opportunity to review
and assess the salary setting authority given to the Board.

     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.
1157, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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