STAND. COM. REP. NO. 944

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1380

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1380, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS BILL OF RIGHTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Small Business Bill of Rights.

Your Committee finds that small businesses make up more than ninety-five per cent of all Hawaii establishments and provide jobs to approximately sixty per cent of Hawaii's employees.

This bill provides a Bill of Rights to ensure that small businesses are treated fairly by government and to reduce the numerous bureaucratic roadblocks to business success. The Bill of Rights will also assist small business owners to strengthen their establishments to ultimately diversify Hawaii's economy and to create more jobs.

Your Committee has amended the bill by providing an effective date of July 1, 2050, for the purpose of promoting further discussion, by clarifying potential conflicts between statutes, and by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1380, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1380, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair