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Replacement of “Public Hearing Requirements” with “Public Notice and Comment Requirements” for Certain Contracts

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Rule status: Adopted

Agency: PPB

Effective date: May 21, 2025

Proposed Rule Full Text
PPB-Proposed-Amendment-of-Rules-Relating-to-Public-Hearings-Notice-and-Comment.pdf

Adopted Rule Full Text
Notice-of-Adoption-Public-Notice-and-Comment-Reform.pdf

Adopted rule summary:

These Procurement Policy Board (PPB) Rule amendments update the provisions of the PPB Rules relating to public hearings and public notice and comment.

Comments are now closed.

Online comments: 2

  • Welson Chang

    Under (d) Conduct of [Hearing] Public Notice and Comment, a revision needs to be made that “a copy of all comments received shall be included in the agency contract file and shall be public information.”

    Comment added April 18, 2025 1:02pm

  • Welson Chang

    Updating my prior comment, I stand opposed to the replacement of “Public Hearing Requirements” with “Public Notice and Comment Requirements” for Certain Contracts.

    Public hearings provide the public with a real person to speak to regarding the matters at hand. The public notice and comment could be relegated (or outsourced) to an AI machine instead of a real person. By replacing the public hearings with a simple public notice and comment, we are moving more towards an automated bureaucracy and away from a responsive representative democracy.

    The Public Hearings requirement needs to be maintained. It may seem like a waste of time, but it provides the public with a recourse of action (positive or negative) that a Public Notice and Comment would not allow.

    Comment added April 30, 2025 12:22pm