STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1553-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2249

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve the administrative rulemaking process by requiring proposed administrative rules, for purposes of meeting public notice requirements, to be described in public meeting agendas under section 92-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), relating to the Sunshine Law, in the same manner as in the agendas of public hearing notices under section 91-3, HRS, relating to the Administrative Procedure Law.

The Department of the Attorney General; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Office of Information Practices supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair