Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1165 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

1. Update and clarify Hawaii's business registration laws to reflect modern business practices and department filing procedures;
2. Correct errors and ambiguities; and
3. Increase the uniformity of the law.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Business Registration Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA).

Your Committee finds that in recent years the Business Division of DCCA has comprehensively reformed the business laws to modernize them, and to support and encourage the conduct of business in this State. This bill fine-tunes the new business registration law by correcting ambiguities, errors, and slippages between its various provisions. Amendments were also made to conform the law to the electronic filing system which DCCA now uses.

Your Committee finds that page 120 was inadvertently omitted from the bill when it was filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau. Therefore, Your Committee has amended this bill by reinserting the contents of page 120, which amended subsection (d) of section 425-1204, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments have also been made for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1165, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1165, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.