STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1781-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3329

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3329, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal chapter 634F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Citizen Participation in Government Act, and enact the Hawaii Public Expression Protection Act in its place.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Common Cause Hawaii, Sierra Club of Hawai‘i, Kua‘āina Ulu ‘Auamo, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Uniform Law Commission, Commission to Promote Uniform Laws, Hawai‘i Reef and Ocean Coalition, Climate Protector Hawai‘i, UNITE HERE! Local 5 Hawaii, Motion Picture Association, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i, Mālama Pūpūkea-Waimea, and six individuals.

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. 3329, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, 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