STAND. COM. REP. NO.  270

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1107

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1107 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds out of the general revenues of the State to establish and maintain a bookmobile that serves the rural areas of the island of Hawaii.

 

     The Hawaii State Public Library System testified in support of the measure and proposed an amendment to name the Hawaii Public Library System as the entity that is authorized to expend the appropriation.  The Department of Education provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1) Naming the Hawaii State Public Library System as the entity that is authorized to expend the appropriation; and

 

(2) Changing the appropriated amounts to an unspecified amount to encourage further discussion.


 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Education respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $300,000 for each year of fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for the establishment and maintenance of the bookmobile servicing rural areas of the island of Hawaii.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1107, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1107, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair