STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2705

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3226

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 3226 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide that a maximum time period to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval shall only apply if a request for a contested case has not been filed.

Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.

Your Committee finds that maximum review and approval time periods for business or development-related permits, licenses, and approvals serve to provide all parties with a greater level of certainty of the time required for review and final determination by the issuing agency on any application for a business or development-related permit, license, or approval. This measure brings greater clarity to the business and development-related regulatory approval process.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting the phrase "or is required by law" after the phrase "a contested case has not been filed", to preserve existing statutory timeframes where contested case proceedings are required.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3226, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3226, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair