STAND. COM. REP. NO. 888

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 970
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BAIL BONDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to exempt bail bond rates from
insurance rate filing requirements.

     Your Committee finds that confusion has resulted among
attorneys, bail bondspersons, and the public over the applicable
law governing bail bond rates.  At present, rates are separately
regulated under both the insurance code and the bail bond laws.
Your Committee finds that exempting bail bond rates from
insurance rate filing requirements and subjecting those rates to
the bail bond laws will clear the present confusion in the area.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for the purposes of style and clarity.

     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.
970, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 970, S.D. 1.


 
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                                   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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