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Committee sends Imagination Library bill to Ways and Means after advocates stress sustainability
Summary
Lawmakers advanced HB1934 to Ways and Means with technical amendments and a deferred effective date after library officials and nonprofits requested initial state funding to expand Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library statewide and raised questions about program targeting and sustainability.
A joint Senate education committee on March 25 voted to advance House Bill 1934, which would establish an Imagination Library of Hawaii program to mail one free book per month to children from birth to age 5, forwarding the measure to Ways and Means with technical and non‑substantive amendments and defecting the effective date to July 31, 2055.
Stacy Aldrich of the Hawaii State Public Library System told the committee the program helps children build home libraries and literacy skills; the library…
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