STAND. COM. REP. NO.  487-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2272

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2272 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to include new language to:

     (1)  Clarify the definition of "landscape architect"; and

     (2)  Replace the existing definition of "surveyor" or "land surveyor" with definitions for "land surveying" and "professional surveyor", "professional land surveyor", or "land surveyor".

The Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects, Hawaii Land Surveyors Association, Wes Thomas Associates, AECOM, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Further revising the definition of "land surveying"; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2272, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2272, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair