STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1297-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2535
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 2535 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROBATE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to delete an unnecessary phrase
from the probate code.

     Testimony in support of this measure was provided by a
member of the Committee on the Uniform Probate Code and Probate
Court Practices.

     Your Committee finds that the deleted phrase is superfluous
and unnecessary.  In Hawaii, an eighteen-year-old is eligible to
serve as a personal representative and may nominate another to
serve in the person's place.

     Your Committee made one technical, nonsubstantive change for
style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2535, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2535, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair