STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2339

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3125
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Government Operations and Housing, to
which was referred S.B. No. 3125 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLICATION OF NOTICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to restore efficient, timely
public notification and access to government information by
exempting the counties from the publication of notice
requirements required under Act 2, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998,
and Act 160, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
City Council of Honolulu, the Office of the Mayor of Maui, a
member of the County Council of Maui, the Department of Finance
of the County of Hawaii, the Office of the County Clerk of the
County of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Newspaper Agency.

     Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from
the Department of Accounting and General Services, Common Cause
Hawaii, the Sierra Club, and RFD Publications.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to require that the
Comptroller address requests or grievances from the counties
relating to the publication of notice requirements set forth in
section 1-28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and if appropriate,
waive some of the requirements.


 
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     Your Committee intends that this measure be used as a
vehicle to continue to study and address the counties' concerns
through public hearings held in the counties, in order to provide
greater opportunities for the counties to voice any concerns.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Government Operations and Housing that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 3125, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 3125, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Government
                                   Operations and Housing,



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                                   ROD TAM, Chair

 
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