Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2337, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reduce the $100 filing fee of a petition for a name change filed by an individual to an unspecified amount.

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor testified in support of this bill.

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. 2337, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.