STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2982

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1650

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1650 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 and intent of this measure is to make necessary technical corrections to Hawaii law by amending or repealing various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii to correct errors and references, clarify language, and delete obsolete or unnecessary provisions.

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

     Your Committee finds that this measure is a statutory revision measure that was prepared and submitted by the Legislative Reference Bureau pursuant to its statutory revision responsibilities under chapter 23G, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  The Legislative Reference Bureau testified that all of the amendments in this measure are intended to be technical in nature to correct errors, omissions, or obsolete law and are not intended to make any substantive changes to the law.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1650, 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 Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair