STAND. COM. REP. NO. 202

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 474

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 474 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOCUMENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the State and counties to accept duplicate original copies of documents for filing in lieu of the original document.

     Your Committees did not receive any testimony on this measure.

     Your Committees find that this measure will improve and streamline the process for filing documents with the State and counties without adversely affecting the need for authentic documents.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 474, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 474, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair