STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2024

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 1343

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1343, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the minimum quorum and voting requirements for the Small Business Regulatory Review Board to conduct its business and validate its actions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Small Business Regulatory Review Board.

Your Committee finds that the quorum requirements for the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, which consists of eleven members, should be amended to ensure the Board has the ability to function without interruption at monthly meetings. This measure decreases the number of members required for quorum from six to five, providing the Small Business Regulatory Review Board with greater flexibility to conduct board meetings.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that members appointed, but not yet confirmed, to serve on the Small Business Regulatory Review Board qualify as members for the purposes of quorum requirements.

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. 1343, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1343, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair