STAND. COM. REP. NO. 109

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 333

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 333 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTARY PUBLIC FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase notary public fees.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Association of Hawaii Notaries.

     Your Committee finds that notary public fees have not been amended since 1995.  Accordingly, this measure increases the fees notaries public are entitled to demand and receive.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the notary public fee for administration of oath also applies to affixing the certificate of oath to that document and includes up to one duplicate original.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 333, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 333, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair