STAND. COM. REP. NO.  86

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1622

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1622 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY REVIEW BOARD,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that small business is not burdened by out-dated, obsolete administrative rules, by requiring the Small Business Regulatory Review Board to work with state agencies to identify rules that must be amended or repealed because their underlying statutes have been repealed or renumbered.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, National Federation of Independent Business, and a concerned individual provided testimony in support of this bill.  The Small Business Regulatory Review Board supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that this bill is one of several important measures moving through the Legislature that seek to improve the regulatory process to benefit small business and stimulate economic growth.

 

     To encourage further discussion of this bill, its effective date has been changed to July 1, 2112.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1622, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1622, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair