STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2537

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2446

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2446 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 fees that notaries may charge to their clients.

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee finds that notaries are currently entitled to demand and receive $5 for many actions including noting protests, administering oaths, taking acknowledgments, and for depositions and official certificates.  Your Committee further finds that increasing the notary public fees will generate revenues commensurate with the service notaries provide. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2017, to provide adequate notice of fee increases to notaries and their clients.

     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. 2446, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2446, S.D. 1.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair