STAND. COM. REP. NO.  826

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 152

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 152, H.D. 1, 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 held in tenancy in common by heirs to the property.

 

     The Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation and a concerned individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to March 15, 2039 to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 152, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 152, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair