Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2817 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal certain administrative rules deemed unnecessary or null and void by the Lieutenant Governor's Slice Waste and Tape (SWAT).

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of Education, and Board of Land and Natural Resources.

This measure is the product of an ongoing effort by the Lieutenant Governor to steamline Hawaii's administrative rules to relieve the burden on the public and businesses. The rules specified under this measure are unnecessary because the underlying statutory authority has been repealed, making them null and void. Act 283, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, was a similar measure passed by the legislature.

Your Committees have amended this measure on the recommendation of the Lieutenant Governor to add a provision to dispense with giving advance public notice and public hearing of the repealed rules, and providing for the continuation of contracts entered into pursuant to the repealed rules.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2817, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2817, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.