STAND. COM. REP. NO. 178

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1511
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
1511 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNIFORM LAWS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for
Hawaii's contribution to the costs of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and for related registration
and travel expenses.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's participation in the
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws has
benefited Hawaii by providing carefully considered uniform laws
for many areas of the law in which uniformity among the states is
appropriate and useful.  Your Committee further finds that the
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
depends upon state appropriations, both for dues and for the
travel expenses of each state's commissioners, for its continued
operation.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Hawaii Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation.

     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.
1511 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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