CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO.82

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 2000

                            RE:   S.B. No. 2467
                                  S.D. 2
                                  H.D. 1
                                  C.D. 1




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

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives
in S.B. No. 2467, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:  

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNLICENSED CONTRACTORS," 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize and establish
procedures for the administrative forfeiture of materials, tools,
and other property owned and used in unlicensed activity by an
unlicensed contractor.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by
deleting its contents and replacing them with the contents of
H.B. No. 1933, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, which contained the most recent
Senate position regarding the contents of this measure.  Your
Committee on Conference has further amended this measure by:


 
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     (1)  Deleting a provision which would have made unlicensed
          contracting activity a per se unfair and deceptive
          practice;

     (2)  Returning to a modified form of the House position
          regarding what prior departmental law enforcement
          contacts are required before a person's tools are
          subject to forfeiture:  forfeiture may be applied for a
          person who is or was a defendant or respondent in a
          separate citation or lawsuit filed with or by the
          Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs;

     (3)  Deleting the qualifier "directly" in the requirement
          that property subject to forfeiture have been used in
          unlicensed activity; and

     (4)  Making technical, non-substantive changes to conform
          the language of the bill to the substantive changes
          listed above.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your
Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your
Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2467, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 2467, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the managers:

  ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE           ON THE PART OF THE SENATE




_____________________________     _______________________________
Rep. RON MENOR                    Sen. BRIAN KANNO
Co-Chair                          Co-Chair



_____________________________     _______________________________
Rep. SCOTT K. SAIKI               Sen. BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI
Co-Chair                          Co-Chair



                                  _______________________________
                                  Sen. MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA
                                  Co-Chair

 
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