STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3640

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2480

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2480, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to modernize the process for authentication services provided by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee by administrative rule for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification;

(2) Establishes the apostilles and certifications special fund; and

(3) Appropriates moneys into and out of the special fund.

Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

Your Committees find that the fees authorized and the special fund established by this measure will enable the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to successfully execute its constitutional obligations regarding authentication services and to cost-effectively and conveniently serve the public.

Your Committees note that this measure, as received by your Committees, appropriated $12,000 into and out of the apostilles and certifications special fund.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2480, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2480, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary,

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair