Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2276 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify and correct ambiguities or errors within Hawaii’s business registration law, and to modernize and increase the effectiveness of the law.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Business Registration Division, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii. No testimony in opposition to this measure was received by your Committee.

This measure is a general housekeeping measure originating within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to update the Hawaii business registration law. This measure addresses errors, ambiguities, and inconsistencies due to changes in the Division’s policies and procedures and the common law, and drafting errors. Your Committee finds that this measure will improve consumer protection by correcting these errors and clarifying these ambiguities and inconsistencies.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive amendments to conform to existing statutory language and for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2276, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2276, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.