STAND. COM. REP. NO.  138

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 75

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 75 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the time by which an agency must submit its small business impact statement and proposed rules to the Departmental Advisory Committee on Small Business (Advisory Committee) and the Small Business Regulatory Review Board (Review Board) when the rules are ready to be filed with the Lieutenant Governor's Office.

The Small Business Regulatory Review Board, Ocean Tourism Coalition, and Quicksilver Charters opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Allowing an agency to submit its small business impact statement with the proposed rules to the Advisory Committee and the Review Board when the rules are essentially complete;

     (2)  Requiring the Review Board to submit comments on the proposed rules to the Governor within 10 days after the rules are submitted to the Governor for approval for public hearing;

     (3)  Amending the effective date to July 1, 2038, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency, clarity, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 75, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 75, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development & Business,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair