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. 196

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1105

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1105 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to enact procedures for the filing and consideration of reports, studies, and audits conducted by executive departments and agencies, the Auditor, and the Legislative Reference Bureau.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by two organizations.  Two state agencies submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that reports submitted to the legislature presently may not receive any follow-up by the legislature.  This measure establishes a procedure for public hearings or briefings on reports submitted to the legislature.

 

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

 

     (1)  Expanding its applicability to reports submitted by the Judiciary and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs;

 

     (2)  Requiring that copies of the reports also be filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau library to better enable the library to serve as a repository of studies and reports submitted to the Legislature;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the requirements of this measure are in addition to those in section 93-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which also requires posting on the Internet;

 

     (4)  Deleting the purpose section; and

 

     (5)  Changing the effective date of the measure to facilitate further discussion.

 

     Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

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

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair