STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1568

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 886

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 886, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make housekeeping amendments to clarify business registration laws and to correct technical errors, ambiguities, and inconsistencies.  This measure amends statues relating to:

     (1)  Business dissolutions and reinstatements;

     (2)  Electronic transmission of notice to members of nonprofit corporations;

     (3)  Procedures for converting an entity into a domestic entity; and

     (4)  Reinstatement of general partnerships.

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 886, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair