STAND. COM. REP. NO.130-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2449

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns, to which was referred H.B. No. 2449 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist small businesses by:

(1) Amending the definition of "small business" to mean an enterprise with fewer than one hundred employees;

(2) Allowing the Small Business Regulatory Review Board (Board) to nominate replacement Board members;

(3) Allowing the Board to elect the Chairperson of the Board;

(4) Removing the requirement that members of the Board come from size-defined businesses;

(5) Repealing the provision for a small business impact statement;

(6) Repealing the section providing for a petition of regulatory review;

(7) Repealing the provision authorizing a small business defender; and

(8) Extending the sunset date of Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii, to June 30, 2004.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the

Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the

Hawaii Chapter of the American Public Works Association. The

Hawaii Business League offered comments. The Legislative

Information Services of Hawaii opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Restoring the provision for small business impact statements;

(2) Restoring the section providing for a petition of regulatory review;

(3) Amending the purpose section to accurately reflect the bill's provisions; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2449, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2449, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns,

 

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LEI AHU ISA, Chair