STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1373

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1202

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1202, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Clarify that a professional or vocational licensee who inadvertently fails to maintain licensing requirements but who subsequently corrects the failure so that there was no lapse in licensure shall not be guilty of unlicensed activity; and

     (2)  Clarify that a contractor who inadvertently fails to maintain licensing requirements and who subsequently corrects the failure so that there was a lapse of no more than sixty days in licensure shall not be guilty of unlicensed contracting activity.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Regulated Industries Complaints Office of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and General Contractors Association of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to clarify that certain professional or vocational licensees or contractors, licensed under either chapter 436B or 444, Hawaii Revised Statutes, who inadvertently fail to renew their licenses shall not be treated as unlicensed contractors after the subsequent renewal of their licenses.  This measure is also consistent with existing licensure requirements under chapter 444, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by clarifying that a lapse in licensure of no more than sixty days does not constitute unlicensed contracting activity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1202, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair