STAND. COM. REP. NO. 556

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1489

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1489, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow attorney's liens to attach to judgments, decrees, orders, settlements, and awards pursuant to arbitration proceedings.

     Your Committee finds that section 507-81, Hawaii Revised Statutes, authorizes attorney's liens to attach to certain judgments, decrees, orders, settlements, and awards entered by a court.  Your Committee further finds that attorney's liens should also attach to the same judgments, decrees, orders, settlements, and awards entered by arbitrators.  Your Committee notes that this measure will eliminate the arbitrary one year deadline for filing a notice of claim for the attorney's lien.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1489, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair