STAND. COM. REP. NO. 49

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 92

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 92 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 PURPOSE 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 various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii pursuant to the statute revision program of the Legislative Reference Bureau under chapter 23G, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     All amendments are of a purely technical nature and correct errors, update references, clarify language, and delete obsolete or unnecessary language. 

     Sections 26 to 74 of this measure amend sections of the Hawaii Revised Statutes that refer to chapter 460, relating to osteopathy, which was repealed by Act 5, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, which consolidated the regulation of physicians and osteopaths under chapter 453, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and repealed chapter 460.  What Act 5 did not do, however, was make conforming amendments to sections outside of chapter 453 that contain references to the repealed chapter 460.  This measure amends those Hawaii Revised Statute sections by deleting the references to repealed chapter 460 and adding references to osteopathy or osteopathic physician as necessary or appropriate.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 92 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair