Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1783 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) to review rules and rule amendments submitted by a state agency to determine whether the rule or amendment violates the substantive authority under which it was adopted.

The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii and the Pacific Resource Partnership testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii State Ethics Commission and the departments of Accounting and General Services, Agriculture, and Commerce and Consumer Affairs opposed this measure. LRB submitted comments.

Your Committee considers fair and proper implementation of rules to be essential to good government.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for 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 H.B. No. 1783, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1783, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.