STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1136

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 949
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 Economic Development and Business
Concerns, to which was referred S.B. No. 949, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM UNINCORPORATED
     NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform
Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act, which provides that
when two or more members get together for nonprofit purposes they
will be treated as a legal entity with:

     (1)  Authority to acquire, hold, and transfer personal and
          real property;

     (2)  Authority to sue and be sued as a separate legal
          entity; and

     (3)  Contract and tort liability separate from its officers
          and members.

     The Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation testified in
support of this measure.

     This measure is similar to H.B. No. 1270, H.D. 1, which was
heard earlier this session by this Committee and the Committees
on Consumer Protection and Commerce and Judiciary and Hawaiian
Affairs.

 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Requiring the filing of the statement appointing an
          agent to receive service of process with the Office of
          the Registrar of the Land Court as well as the Bureau
          of Conveyances; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 949, S.D. 1, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 949, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committees on Consumer Protection and Commerce and Judiciary and
Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development and Business
                                   Concerns,



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                                   ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair