STAND. COM. REP. NO. 381-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2482

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2482 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEETING NOTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of the Lieutenant Governor or the appropriate county clerk's office to ensure access to paper or electronic copies of all meeting notices and removes the requirement to post notices in a central location in a public building.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and Society of Professional Journalists Hawaii Chapter. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Information Practices and Office of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaiʻi.

Your Committee finds that this measure will increase efficiency and access to appropriate notices and agendas by allowing for the postings of these documents in an electronic format.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2482 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair