STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2441

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2121
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
2121 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OBSOLETE LAWS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal or make conforming
amendments to various laws that have either been repealed by
implication, or by their own terms by operation of law, and are
now deemed to be "functus", that is, they have accomplished their
intended purpose and are of no further force or effect.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the Department of Accounting and General Services (regarding
section 3 of the bill) and the Small-Business Economic Revival
Force.  Informational testimony was received from the Legislative
Reference Bureau and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that there is a need to remove these
obsolete laws for several reasons.  A statute that remains in the
printed text of the Hawaii Revised Statutes from year to year but
which has been repealed by operation of law or by implication
unnecessarily increases the size of the Hawaii Revised Statutes,
thereby adding to production costs.  Retention of such a statute
may also create some confusion that the law, while repealed, is
still retained "on the books".  Your Committee finds that
repealing or amending these sections, as appropriate, assists in
the removal of obsolete laws and helps to clarify the intent of

 
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the legislature as to which laws are of continuing force and
effect.

     Your Committee has amended this bill to make a technical,
nonsubstantive change.

     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.
2121, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2121, S.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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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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