STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1262-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3006

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3006, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to streamline and clarify the business registration laws by making statutory housekeeping amendments to correct errors, ambiguities, and inconsistencies.

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  A concerned individual submitted comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by making technical amendments to remove ambiguities and inconsistencies in the statutory amendments made by this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3006, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3006, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

____________________________ TOMMY WATERS, Chair

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair