STAND. COM. REP. NO.  627

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1112

      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 H.B. No. 1112 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LICENSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of a temporary license for the solemnization of a marriage to an individual if the individual has the prior written consent of the couple or couples whose marriage or marriages will be solemnized.

     The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that a person with a temporary license to solemnize marriages must keep a statutorily required record of all solemnizations performed and report those solemnizations to the Department of Health;

     (2)  Applying the same temporary licensing procedures to solemnizing civil unions, with similar reporting and record keeping requirements after the solemnization; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date to January 7, 2059, to promote further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 1112, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1112, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair