Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Business and Economic Development and Higher Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 19 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Auditor to conduct a "sunrise" analysis of the probable effects of proposed regulation of athlete agents and assess whether its enactment is consistent with State policy.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the University of Hawaii.

Your Committees find that H.B. No. 51 was introduced in the 2005 Regular Session to enact a Uniform Athlete Agents Act that would provide for the registration, certification, and background check of agents seeking to represent student athletes. Under section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, all measures being considered that would subject unregulated professions and vocations to licensing or other regulatory controls must be referred by concurrent resolution to the Auditor for analysis prior to enacting the legislation.

Your Committees have made technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Business and Economic Development and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 19, as amended herein, recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 19, S.D. 1.