Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2526 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the law relating to the disposition of abandoned or seized property.

More specifically, the measure makes a technical amendment to section 171-31.5(h), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify the remedies available to owners of abandoned or seized properties.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2526 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.