STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1464-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2163

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2163, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Director of Health to give notice of water pollution and solid waste pollution violations via a posting on a searchable government website or a sign conspicuously posted on the property when attempts to serve written notice in person and by mail have been unsuccessful.

The Department of Health, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Conservation Council for Hawaii, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and two concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring both a posting on a searchable government website and a sign conspicuously posted on the property, if appropriate, for purposes of giving notice of a water or solid waste pollution violation when attempts to service written notice in person and by mail have been unsuccessful; and

     (2)  Making this measure effective on January 1, 2017.

     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. 2163, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2163, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair