CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 78

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2011

RE:    H.B. No. 1138

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1138, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ATTORNEY'S LIENS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Establish a lien in favor of certified shorthand reporter to be imposed on the assets of an attorney's firm, partnership, corporation, company, or other legal entity for outstanding debts for services rendered;

     (2)  Include arbitration in those proceedings to which attorney's liens may be attached; and

     (3)  Eliminate the one-year filing deadline for liens.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting those portions of the bill that extended attorney's liens to include arbitration proceedings and removed the one year deadline for filing;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2011; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1138, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1138, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair	____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair
____________________________ MICHELLE KIDANI, Co-Chair