STAND. COM. REP. NO. 468-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1932

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1932 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY RULES BY AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow agencies to adopt specified emergency rules where new federal or state legislation or court decisions disrupt prior practice and urgent clarification is necessary.

The Department of Education, University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Broadening the purpose of this measure to reflect the measure's intent that authorizing agency adoption of emergency rules is intended to encompass any new federal or state legislation or court decisions that may disrupt prior practice in the State under the administered statute; and

(2) Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to further continued discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1932, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1932, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair