STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1410

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 633

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 633 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNLICENSED CONTRACTING ACTIVITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the value of any work done by an unlicensed contractor shall not be used as an offset in calculating the value of the property in unlicensed contractor fraud cases.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui; and Pacific Resource Partnership supported this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 633 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair