Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 2209 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the laws relating to the State Boxing Commission.

The State Boxing Commission testified in support of the measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure updates and conforms the chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to the State Boxing Commission to the federally enacted Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2209, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2209, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing.