Bill Text: HI SB2638 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Board Packets.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-13 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2638 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2638-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO BOARD PACKETS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 92-7.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§92-7.5
Board packet; filing; public inspection; notice. At the time the board packet is distributed
to the board members, but no later than [forty-eight hours] two
business days before the meeting [time], the board shall also make
the board packet available for public inspection in the board's office;
provided that nothing in this section shall require creation of a board packet[.];
provided further that nothing in this section shall prohibit the distribution
of public testimony to board members within two business days before the
meeting. The board shall provide
notice to persons requesting notification of meetings pursuant to section
92-7(e) that includes a list of the documents that were compiled by the
board and distributed to the board members before a meeting for use at that
meeting and that the board packet is available for inspection in the
board's office and shall provide reasonably prompt access to the board packet
to any person upon request. The board is
not required to mail board packets. The
board shall post the board packet on its website. As soon as practicable, the board shall
accommodate requests for electronic access to the board packet.
For purposes of this section, "board packet" means documents that are compiled by the board and distributed to board members before a meeting for use at that meeting, to the extent the documents are public under chapter 92F; provided that this section shall not require disclosure of executive session minutes, license applications, or other records for which the board cannot reasonably complete its redaction of nonpublic information in the time available before the public inspection required by this section."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Board Packets; Public Inspection; Timeframe; Public Testimony
Description:
Requires boards to make available for public inspection board packets, if created, at the time the board packet is distributed to the board members but no later than two business days before the meeting. Carves out an exception by allowing public testimony to be distributed to board members within two business days before the meeting. Requires boards to provide notice that includes a list of the documents that were compiled by the board and distributed to board members before a meeting. (SD1)
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