Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2468 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to contract with private consultants to assist in the review of cemetery and pre-need funeral authority license applications and regulatory issues both before and after licensure.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, conformity, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2468, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2468, H.D. 1.