STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1585-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2718

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2718, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawai‘i Labor Relations Board.

Your Committee finds that unlike other administrative agencies, the Hawaii Labor Relations Board is unable to admit or consider hearsay evidence under existing law. Enabling the Board to consider relevant hearsay evidence will provide a more just hearing process, particularly for self-represented litigants.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2718, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair