STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2777

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3073

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3073 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC PERMITTING FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow certain Department of Health environmental programs to withhold sufficient moneys to cover the cost of electronic and credit card provider services when conducting business electronically.

     Specifically, this measure allows certain programs of the Department of Health that collect fees for the issuance of permits, licenses, certificates, or similar approvals to first deduct any electronic and credit card processing fees or charges made pursuant to agreements between the Department and the electronic services and credit card services providers when the application or payment is made electronically.

     Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure to clarify the title of the new section to be added to the Hawaii Revised Statutes by replacing the word "permits" with the phrase "applications and payments" to more appropriately encompass the true nature of the new provisions relating to the processing of electronic payments for the issuance of permits, licenses, certificates, and similar approvals, and to keep the contents within the narrow title drafted by the administration.  Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3073, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3073, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair