STAND. COM. REP. NO. 593

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1327

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1327 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Contractors License Board.

Your Committee finds that this statutory revision measure is submitted by the Legislative Reference Bureau pursuant to Chapter 23G, Hawaii Revised Statutes. All of the statutory amendments proposed by this measure are intended to be technical in nature to correct errors or omissions or to repeal obsolete laws.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting section 14 of this measure and the amendment to section 444-26(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, in section 16 of this measure to remove the amendments relocating the definition of "person injured" or "injured person" from section 444-26(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to section 444-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of consistency and style.

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. 1327, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1327, S.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