RegAlert

What is RegAlert?

RegAlert was created by the Small Business Regulatory Review Board (SBRRB) because small businesses are a valuable resource in Hawaii. It is a communication tool intended to facilitate small business owners’ awareness of new and/or proposed administrative rules via electronic mail. It also provides a means for small businesses to communicate their comments on the rules to the State through the SBRRB.

While this process would complement, but not replace, the public meetings required in the rulemaking process, it allows State agencies to better understand how rules and regulations affect its small businesses. In the process, it will assist the agencies to determine what regulatory alternatives may be less burdensome.

How does RegAlert Work?

1. The SBRRB electronically mails a RegAlert to small business membership associations;
2. The business association, in turn, may send the rules to its members who can review the rules;
3. The small businesses may then email their testimonies on the rules to DBEDT via the SBRRB at sbrrb@dbedt.hawaii.gov
4. The SBRRB will review the small businesses’ testimonies at an upcoming scheduled Board meeting
5. Upon review of the testimonies, the SBRRB will provide commentary to the rule-making agency

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Proposed Legislation: