STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1293-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 1318

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1318, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Provide the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) with the flexibility to adjust fees and other non-tax revenues to align revenue collections with expenditures; and

(2) Reduce fees charged for business registration filings with DCCA.

DCCA, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Hawaii Association of Realtors testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Requiring the Director of DCCA (Director) to establish five-member advisory committees to serve as:

(A) Consultants to the various boards of DCCA and to the Director in their review of licensees referred for possible disciplinary action;

(B) Experts to DCCA for investigations and professional vocational licensing matters; and

(C) Examiners of program expenditures in each division of DCCA to determine whether expenditures of the division provide reasonable services;

(2) Requiring the Director to provide records as requested by the advisory committees to conduct a thorough review of historic and current expenditures and to evaluate the necessity of budget increases;

(3) Requiring the Director to provide support staff for each advisory committee;

(4) Requiring the advisory committees to submit reports of their findings to the Legislature no later than 30 days prior to each regular session;

(5) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and

(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1318, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1318, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair