STAND. COM. REP. NO. 653

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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 333, S.D. 1, 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 written comments in support of this measure from the Association of Hawaii Notaries.

     Your Committee recognizes that notaries perform an important and necessary public service and that Hawaii's notary public fees have not been increased since 1995.  Your Committee finds that the increases included in this measure are reasonable and timely.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 333, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair