STAND. COM. REP. NO. 970-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 3125
                                     S.D. 2
                                     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. 3125, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLICATION OF NOTICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill as received by your Committee is to
require the Directors of Finance of the counties to determine
publications to use for all notices published in their respective
counties.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
State Department of Accounting and General Services, County of
Maui Office of the Mayor, County of Hawaii Office of the County
Clerk, County of Hawaii Department of Finance, Hawaii Newspaper
Agency, Common Cause Hawaii, and an individual council member
from the County Council, County of Maui.

     Your Committee finds that allowing the counties to determine
which publications to place their public notices in will fulfill
the intent and spirit of notice law.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting Section 1;

     (2)  Deleting all proposed language in Section 2; and


 
 
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     (3)  Inserting language clarifying that counties are not
          included in the definition of "government agency" for
          whom the comptroller determines sources of publication,
          referred to in Section 1-28.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     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. 3125, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 3125, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair