STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1466

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 1349

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1349, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow nonprofit corporations to more efficiently conduct voting by implementing certain portions of the Model Nonprofit Corporations Act to allow members and directors of Hawaii nonprofit corporations to take votes on actions by electronically-transmitted ballots.

     The Department of the Attorney General, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, Aloha Society of Association Executives, Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, and Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 1349, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1349, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

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

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair