STAND. COM. REP. NO.  743

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 629

      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. 629 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Lieutenant Governor to post in a single, searchable database, the full text of all existing administrative rules for all state agencies on the Lieutenant Governor's Internet website.

     The Office of the Lieutenant Governor submitted comments on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Adding an appropriation section to fund the development and implementation of the website;

(2)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, 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. 629, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 629, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair