STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1342-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2072

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2072 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SERVICE OF PROCESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify the manner of serving a summons within the State for a civil action.

The Department of Public Safety and Mortgage Bankers Association of Hawaii provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Bankers Association, Hawaii Financial Services Association, Hawaii Credit Union League, and the Collection Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association provided comments on this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by limiting its scope to actions of assumpsit.

     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 S.B. No. 2072, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2072, 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair