STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1353-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 3029

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3029, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION:  AMENDING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES AND THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES AND CLARIFYING LANGUAGE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make various housekeeping amendments to the Hawaii Revised Statutes and Session Laws of Hawaii to correct errors, omissions, or obsolete laws.

 

     The Hawaii Real Estate Commission testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General and Legislative Reference Bureau provided comments.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing substantive amendments that were made to the statutory text set forth in sections 13 and 14 in the previous draft of this bill and restoring the statutory text in those sections to the form in which they read in the version of this bill as introduced and as drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau, so that the statutory text in those sections may be properly set forth for ratification;


     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2012; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 3029, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3029, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair