STAND. COM. REP. NO. 377

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 13
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred H.B. No. 13 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make nonsubstantive,
housekeeping amendments to provisions of Chapter 432, Hawaii
Revised Statutes (HRS), to allow mutual benefit societies to
become incorporated under Chapter 415B, HRS, the Hawaii Nonprofit
Corporation Act (HNCA).

     Your Committee received testimony from the Business
Registration Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer
Affairs (DCCA), which had no opposition to the bill but suggested
amendments deleting archaic references to the term "charter,"
used in repealed provisions of the HNCA.  Testimony was also
submitted by the Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), which
recommended additional revisions to Chapter 415B, consistent with
this bill.

     Upon consideration of the bill and the testimony submitted,
your Committee has amended this bill as suggested by DCCA and
HMSA, by making the technical, nonsubstantive amendments.


 
 
 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 13, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 13,
H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair