STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2669

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3125
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
3125, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee,
is to give the Comptroller the authority to address and resolve
county grievances regarding publication of notice requirements
and, if appropriate, waive some requirements.

     Your Committee finds that under the current laws relating to
notice requirements, notices published by governmental agencies
fail to reach many rural Neighbor Island residents.  Your
Committee further finds that the counties should have the
flexibility to publish county notices in a publication that is
readily available to all county residents.

     Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was
submitted by the Attorney General, the Department of Accounting
and General Services,the Hawaii County Clerk, a member of the
County Council, County of Maui, and the Hawaii Newspaper Agency.
Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by Common
Cause Hawaii.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:


 
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     (1)  Deleting the amendments to subsection (a) of section 1-
          28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (2)  Deleting the authorization for the Comptroller to
          resolve county grievances and waive notice
          requirements;

     (3)  Amending subsection (b) of section 1-28.5, Hawaii
          Revised Statutes, to require the directors of finance
          for each county (instead of the Comptroller) to
          determine a publication to be used for all county
          published notices;

     (4)  Adding a provision clarifying that the Comptroller and
          the county directors of finance may enter into
          cooperative agreements for publication of public
          notices;

     (5)  Providing that the counties are responsible for paying
          the direct cost of county published notices; and

     (6)  Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3125, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3125, S.D.
2.

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



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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