Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2047 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the holding period from fifteen days to thirty days for items purchased by a pawnshop dealer in all counties.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Honolulu Police Department. No testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted.

Your Committees find that this measure will benefit the citizens of this State by allowing enforcement agencies to be more effective in recovering stolen property before destruction or resale of the property.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2047 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.