STAND. COM. REP. NO. 344-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2530
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2530 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PUBLIC
     NOTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the Department
of Health (DOH) need only publish notification for public
participation in air pollution control matters once in the county
affected.

     The DOH testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that prior to 1998, the DOH was
required to place notification of air pollution control matters
in a newspaper which is printed and issued at least twice weekly.
However, your Committee finds that as a result of a drafting
error in 1998 legislation intended to spur competition among
providers of classified advertisement and reduce legal notice
costs of the state, the DOH's public notice requirement was
altered to mandate public notification at least twice weekly.

     Your Committee believes that this change was unintended and
that this measure will correct an otherwise onerous and costly
duty placed on the department.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for style and clarity.

 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2530, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2530, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair