Bill Text: HI SB1276 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Small Business Regulatory Flexibility

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1276 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1276-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1062

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1276

      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 Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1276, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act by:

    

     (1)  Requiring the Small Business Regulatory Review Board (Board) to determine the impact of proposed rules on small businesses;

 

     (2)  Adding definitions of "county" and "State";

 

     (3)  Amending the definitions of "affected small businesses" and "agency";

 

     (4)  Increasing the number of board members from 11 to 13;

 

     (5)  Removing the restriction that the chairperson shall serve a term of not more than one year;

 

     (6)  Codifying the Small Business Bill of Rights from Act 230, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, section 2; and

 

     (7)  Making other non-substantive changes.

 

     The Board, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, National Federation of Independent Business, and Hawaii Business League supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by replacing its contents with the substance of H.B. No. 1428, H.D. 1.  As amended:

 

     (1)  The effective date has been changed to January 1, 2112; and

 

     (2)  The bill also contains technical, nonsubstantive differences.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Judiciary, to which this bill is next referred, to consider the amendments requested by the Board.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1276, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1276, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair