STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1824

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1016
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
1016, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve access to
administrative rules by:

     (1)  Limiting to ten cents per page the amount each state
          agency other than the Lieutenant Governor (LG) may
          charge for copies of rules;

     (2)  Allowing separate charges for searching, identifying,
          and segregating rules to be copied; and

     (3)  Requiring, effective January 1, 2000, the posting of
          the full text of proposed rules on the LG's website.

     The Department of Accounting and General Services and
Hawaii's Thousand Friends testified in support of this measure.
The Office of Information Practices testified in support of the
intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.


 
 
 
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     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.
1016, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1016, S.D.
1, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair