STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3320

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2582
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
2582, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expedite the procedures
required to repeal obsolete or unauthorized administrative rules.

     Your Committee finds that under current law, the repeal of
administrative rules that are obsolete or unauthorized requires
the same process as the repeal or adoption of rules generally
under Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Departments,
therefore, focus their resources on rules of current concern
rather than on clearing out obsolete rules.  Your Committee
believes it is appropriate to expedite the process for the repeal
of rules that are obsolete or unauthorized.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Department of Health, the
Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the
Department of Accounting and General Services, the Department of
Budget and Finance, the Department of Commerce and Consumer
Affairs, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the
Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of
Transportation, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the Board
of Agriculture, the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, the
Hawaii Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii,

 
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the Small Business Economic Revival Force, the National
Federation of Independent Business, Common Cause Hawaii (with a
suggested amendment), Government Efficiency Teams, Inc., the
Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and Jas. W. Glover, Ltd.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:

     (1)  Setting the length of public notice required at 45
          days;

     (2)  Specifying that the notice and, if requested, hearing
          requirements are for the convenience of the public;

     (3)  Requiring a statement of the reason for the repeal as
          part of the public notice required; 

     (4)  Requiring a public hearing be held if a written
          petition is filed with the agency seeking a particular
          repeal; and

     (4)  Making technical, non-substantive amendments for the
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2582, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2582,
H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



                                   ______________________________
                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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