STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1187

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 886

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 886, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make housekeeping amendments to clarify business registration laws and to correct technical errors, ambiguities, and inconsistencies.  This measure amends statutes relating to:

 

(1)    Business dissolutions and cancellations;

 

(2)    Electronic transmission of notice to members of nonprofit corporations;

 

(3)    Procedures for converting an entity into a domestic entity; and

 

(4)    Reinstatement of general partnerships.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) and the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly testified in support of this bill.

 

     DCCA expressed concerns that technical amendments made to the original draft of this bill may have the unintended effect of creating inconsistencies among the various business registration laws.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by restoring the original draft of this bill as introduced, except for amendments to conform the bill to the Ramseyer drafting conventions followed by the Legislature.

 

     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 S.B. No. 886, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 886, S.D. 1, 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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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair