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. 3144 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to outline procedures, conditions, and limitations for the admission of attorneys from other states and territories of the United States or the District of Columbia to practice law in Hawaii.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Hawaii Reserves, Inc., and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that procedures, conditions, and limitations for admitting attorneys from other states and territories and the District of Columbia to practice in Hawaii should be established. Your Committee finds that sufficient protections will remain in place to ensure the admission of qualified attorneys.

Your Committee has amended this measure to insert a time requirement that attorneys must practice and be in good standing for five of the last seven years. Your Committee also amended this measure to make technical, non-substantive changes.

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. 3144, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3144, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.