Bill Text: HI SB1105 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Legislative Hearings; Studies and Reports

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 666). [SB1105 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1105-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1178

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1105

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 1105, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS AND PROCEDURES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require legislative public hearings or informational briefings be held on studies or audits that are requested by the Legislature by a concurrent resolution or required by law that are prepared by:

 

     (1)  An executive department or agency;

 

     (2)  The Auditor;

 

     (3)  The Judiciary;

 

     (4)  The Legislative Reference Bureau; or

 

     (5)  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     The Hawaii Women's Political Caucus and Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Requiring that studies or audits of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation also be subject to legislative public hearings or briefings; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1105, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1105, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

 

 

		____________________________ JAMES KUNANE TOKIOKA, Chair