STAND. COM. REP. NO.  209

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 319

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 319 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for the automatic repeal of administrative rules when the underlying statute or ordinance has been repealed.

     The State Attorney General testified against this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

     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. 319, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 319, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair