STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1278-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2711
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred S.B. No. 2711, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce unnecessary costs of
government regulation by:

     (1)  Authorizing the expeditious, streamlined repeal of
          outdated administrative rules that are based on
          repealed statutes or ordinances;

     (2)  Reducing unauthorized and excessive regulation through
          Legislative Management Committee oversight of agency
          rulemaking with the purpose of excising rules that
          exceed statutory authority; and

     (3)  Discouraging enactment of unnecessary or excessive
          regulation by requiring that agency justification be
          provided for rules imposing regulation in excess of
          federal requirements.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, Land Use
Research Foundation of Hawaii, and Small Business Regulatory
Review Board.  The Department of Business, Economic Development,

 
 
 
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and Tourism and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii submitted
testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2711, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Consumer
                                   Protection and Commerce,



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair