REPORT TITLE:
Libraries; resrce matrls & svs


DESCRIPTION:
Continues the Enhanced Services Program through July 1, 2002.

 
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TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE LIBRARY ENHANCED SERVICES PROGRAM.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the public library
 
 2 system needs to be responsive to the competitive and fast-
 
 3 changing field of information access, storage, and delivery, and
 
 4 to the needs of its patrons.  The Legislature also recognizes
 
 5 that the public library system's ability to provide its services
 
 6 is severely compromised by the limited operational funds
 
 7 available, and supports the Hawaii state public library system's
 
 8 efforts to enhance its services through public support via
 
 9 donations of money, services, and properties.
 
10      The legislature further finds that the results of state
 
11 library system's implementation of its "Customer Satisfaction:  A
 
12 Master Plan for Public Libraries," approved by the Board of
 
13 Education in April 1991, has been to improve patron services,
 
14 patron access to information, private funding support, greater
 
15 revenue from a variety of services, employee morale, and cost
 
16 controls.  From this master plan evolved the project called
 
17 "State Library Innovations:  A Model for Maximizing Employees and
 
18 Revenues" (SLIMMER).  To enable the Hawaii state public library
 
19 system to collect revenues from a variety of services, the
 

 
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 1 legislature enacted Acts 327, 361, and 328, Session Laws of
 
 2 Hawaii 1993, first, to authorize the library to establish
 
 3 enhanced services and charge fees for use to support library
 
 4 operations; second, to create a charitable trust called Public-
 
 5 Private Partners for Literacy Trust Fund; and third, to establish
 
 6 the Hawaii State Library Foundation trust fund.  The legislature
 
 7 extended Act 327, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993, to June 30, 1999,
 
 8 with the enactment of Act 144, Session Laws of Hawaii 1996.
 
 9      The purpose of this Act is to continue the initiatives begun
 
10 in 1991 so that the services and revenues generated by this
 
11 legislation will continue to be supported.  The legislature
 
12 encourages the library system to generate such supplemental
 
13 revenues through its own innovations.  The legislature recognizes
 
14 through these enactments that the Hawaii state public library
 
15 system requires sources of revenue beyond state tax revenues in
 
16 order to fully support its service program and to maintain a
 
17 leading-edge position in provision of library services to the
 
18 residents of the State of Hawaii.
 
19      SECTION 2.  Act 327, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993, as amended
 
20 by Act 144, Session Laws of Hawaii 1996, is amended by amending
 
21 section 3 to read as follows:
 
22      "SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval
 
23 and shall be repealed on July 1, [1999.] 2002."
 

 
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 1      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 2 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 3      SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on June 30, 1999.
 
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 5                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 
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