STAND. COM. REP. NO.  168-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2268

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2268 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this measure is to establish a working group to review laws and rules relating to the regulation of small business to increase the efficiency of rules affecting small businesses.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism commented on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the requirement for the Department of Budget and Finance to convene a working group to identify redundant and obsolete laws related to small business;

 

     (2)  Authorizing the Small Business Regulatory Review Board to require a subsequent hearing on a proposed rule when:

 

          (A)  A small business statement indicates that the agency, at a public hearing on the proposed rule, received testimony requesting that the proposed rule be amended, but the rule was not amended; and

 

          (B)  The small business statement either:

 

              (i)  Indicates inconsistency with the agency's determinations under section 201M-2(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes; or

 

              (ii) Does not address the concerns of the public; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2268, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2268, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair