STAND. COM. REP. NO.  604

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1071

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1071 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION:  AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES AND THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSES OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, AND DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend or repeal various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.

 

     The Legislative Reference Bureau testified in support of this measure and recommended an amendment.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify the cross-reference to the United States Code in section 29 of this measure to more precisely reference the subject of trafficking in persons.

 

     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. 1071, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1071, 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