STAND. COM. REP. NO. 266

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1080
                                     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 H.B. No. 1080 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NAMES OF CORPORATIONS,
     PARTNERSHIPS, AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable a corporation,
partnership (including a limited liability partnership), and a
limited liability company to seek administrative relief against
an entity that has registered or is using a substantially
identical or confusingly similar name.

     The Business Registration Division of the Department of
Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Business Law Section of the
Hawaii State Bar Association testified in support of the bill.

     Your Committee finds that businesses in Hawaii need a
convenient, expeditious, and inexpensive process through which
they can resolve disputes involving the use of business names.
This bill provides such a process and would alleviate businesses
from the financial burden of resolving these disputes by civil
litigation.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
to the bill for purposes of style and clarity.

 
 
 
 
 
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     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 H.B. No. 1080, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1080, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Consumer Protection and Commerce.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair