STAND. COM. REP. NO.  139

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 152

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 152 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARTITION OF HEIRS PROPERTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to adopt the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act to establish procedures and remedies for use in actions for partition of real property involving heirs property.

 

     The Judiciary and the Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying inconsistencies between notice requirements contained in this measure and notice requirements applicable to civil actions pursuant to existing statutes and court rules; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 152, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 152, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair