STAND. COM. REP. NO. 413

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1172
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 1172 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for more efficient
operation by the Bureau of Conveyances by replacing the Bureau of
Conveyances Equipment modernization special fund with the bureau
special fund, provide for deposit of a portion of recordation
fees into the general fund, and the remainder of recordation fees
and other fees into the special fund, and authorize the bureau to
pay for personnel, equipment and improvements necessary for
modernization of the recording system.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Board of Land and Natural Resources.  

     Your Committee finds that an income stream from existing
fees will give the Bureau of Conveyances a greater level of self-
sufficiency and will enable the funding of needed modernization
of the land recordation system.  

     Your Committee revised the bill by:  

     1.   Adding provisions for the bureau to change the fees
          charged for microfilm duplication and removing
          reference to deposit into the general fund; and 

     2.   Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of style and clarity.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,

 
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your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 1172, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1172, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water and Land
                                   Use,



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                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair