Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2439 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the effective date of the Uniform Arbitration Act from commencing after June 30, 2004, to June 30, 2005.

Testimony in support of this measure was presented by the Director of Human Resources Development and a Deputy Attorney General. Written testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Judiciary's Director of the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Director of Human Resources for the City and County of Honolulu, the Chair of the Business and Transaction Issues subcommittee for the Hawaii Association of REALTORS® Legislative Committee, and a representative of the Hawaii Commissioners to the National Conference on Uniform State Laws.

Your Committee finds that delaying the effective date of the Uniform Arbitration Act will allow for thoughtful and thorough discussion of the many procedures and provisions included in the Act.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2439 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.