STAND. COM. REP. NO. 503
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1352
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2009
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to ease the backlog in land court recording and registration by:
(1) Transferring fee simple time share interest from the land court system (Torrens) to the regular system; and
(2) Establishing a pilot program to implement electronic recording of fee simple time share interest.
This measure is recommended by the joint legislative investigative committee established pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 226, adopted during the 2007 regular legislative session, which identified serious shortcomings relating to the Bureau of Conveyances' operational mismanagement, potential loss of revenue, and potential areas of vulnerability. The joint legislative investigative committee recognized that automation of certain functions in the Bureau of Conveyances may address one of the major underlying problems, work backlog. Modernizing through electronic recordation will improve efficiency, however, a gradual approach will prevent the existing work backlog from increasing due to a shift in procedures.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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