STAND. COM. REP. NO. 528

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1498

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1498, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure the stability of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board (Board) by transferring it from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, authorizing funding for the Board through the Compliance Resolution Fund, and requiring administrative agencies to notify the Board of changes in administrative rules that affect small businesses.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation.

 

     Your Committees find that, while this measure is still not in its ideal form at this time, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs reports that it is currently in discussion with the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism regarding the potential impacts of this measure.  Additionally, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs has reported its willingness to continue to work with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Department of the Attorney General on the issues raised by this measure.  Therefore, your Committees find that it is prudent to move this measure forward to allow the discussion among the several Executive Branch departments to continue.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1498, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1498, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means,

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair