HB612 HD1

Report Title:

Libraries; Services

 

Description:

Makes permanent the Enhanced Services Program. (HB612 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	612
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE LIBRARY ENHANCED SERVICES PROGRAM.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. In 1993, recognizing that the Hawaii state public library system's ability to provide services to its patrons was being severely compromised by the limited amount of operational funds made available to it, the legislature decided to support the library system's efforts to generate alternative sources of revenue by enacting Act 327, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993. Act 327, subsequently amended by Act 144, Session Laws of Hawaii 1996, and Act 29, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, to extend its repeal date, permits the library system to collect cost-recovery based fees for providing enhanced services to its patrons that are in addition to those mandated by law and supported by state tax revenues.

The legislature finds that the fees collected by the public library system for providing enhanced services has allowed it to support its service program and remain a leader of innovative library services to the residents of the State of Hawaii.

The purpose of this Act is to permanently establish the library system's ability to collect fees for enhanced services.

SECTION 2. Act 327, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993, as amended by Act 144, Session Laws of Hawaii 1996, and Act 29, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, is amended by amending section 3 to read as follows:

"SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval [and shall be repealed on July 1, 2002]."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.