STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2282

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2295
                                        




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.
2295 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds necessary
for Hawaii's contribution to the costs of the National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) for fiscal year
2000-2001, and for the costs of sending Hawaii's delegation, the
members of the state Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation,
to the NCCUSL 2000 annual meeting.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the state Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation.

     Your Committee finds that the NCCUSL performs an invaluable
public service to Hawaii and all other state governments by
working to improve state law.  As a unique state service
organization that first convened in 1892, the NCCUSL was created
to consider state law and to determine those areas of the law in
which uniformity is important.  The NCCUSL has been responsible
for developing a number of uniform laws, including the Uniform
Commercial Code, the Uniform Partnership Act, and the Model State
Administrative Procedure Act.  Hawaii has enacted over one

 
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hundred of these uniform acts, amendments to uniform acts, and
revised uniform acts.

     The NCCUSL, however, depends on state appropriations for its
continued operation.  Your Committee agrees with the intent of
this bill, and finds that Hawaii's contribution to the costs of
the NCCUSL represents an extremely cost-effective investment for
the work performed.

     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.
2295 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   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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