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Communication Number 2022-01 <br />Testimony Requirement <br />All interested persons may submit <br />Written or oral testimony <br />On any agenda item . <br />27 <br />accept testimony on agenda items from all interested persons at its meetings. <br />Sunshine Law boards must accept testimony from any interested person, which can be <br />written or oral testimony. But the testimony must be on agenda items, and a board is <br />not required to accept testimony on issues that are not on the agenda unless it sets <br />aside a general open forum for people to talk about whatever issues they want to. The <br />board is not required, however, to hold an open forum. <br />A board may set reasonable limits on testimony, such as time limits, that are fairly <br />Sunshine Law does not require it to be established under HRS chapter 91 rulemaking <br />procedures. <br />27 <br /> <br />