Bill Text: HI HB549 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Agency Meetings; Notice Filings

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB549 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB549-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  851

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 549

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 549, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for greater efficiencies and public access in government under Chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), Public Agency Meetings and Records Law, by:

 

     (1)  Eliminating the requirement that notices be filed in the      Office of the Lieutenant Governor or the appropriate               county clerk's office;

 

(2)  Requiring state and county boards to file notices of meetings, including emergency meetings, by electronic posting on the state calendar on the central state website (for state boards) or the respective county calendar on the county website (for county boards); and

 

(3)  Providing that if there is interruption in service in accessing the state or county calendars, then the notices shall be filed in the Office of Information Practices or the appropriate county clerk's office, until service is restored.

 

    

          The Office of Information Practices; Natalie J. Iwasa, CPA, Inc.; and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The City and County of Honolulu Office of the City Clerk submitted comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 549, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair