STAND. COM. REP. NO.667-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2559

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF NULL AND VOID AND UNNECESSARY ADMINISTRATIVE RULES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reduce regulatory burden and confusion by repealing void and unnecessary administrative rules.

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Education, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Exempting state agencies that are affected by this bill from chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with regard to the repeal of rules pursuant to this bill; and

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

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 H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair