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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO STATE JUDGMENT LIENS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 501-102, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "§501-102  Filing liens, etc., notice.  Every conveyance,
 
 4 lien, attachment, order, decree, instrument, or entry affecting
 
 5 registered land, which would under existing laws, if recorded,
 
 6 filed, or entered in the bureau of conveyances, affect the real
 
 7 estate to which it relates, shall, if registered, filed or
 
 8 recorded, or entered in the office of the assistant registrar in
 
 9 the bureau of conveyances, be notice to all persons from the time
 
10 of such registering, filing, recording, or entering.  This
 
11 section shall not be construed to relate to state or federal tax
 
12 liens, liens for any debt owing to the State of Hawaii or any of
 
13 its agencies, or child support liens that are created pursuant to
 
14 order or judgment filed through judicial or administrative
 
15 proceeding in this State or in any other state, the recording of
 
16 which shall be as provided by chapters 231, 505, 636, and 576D,
 
17 respectively.  The recordation in the bureau of conveyances of
 
18 [the] a child support order or judgment [in the bureau of
 
19 conveyances] or a judgment wherein a debt owing to the State of
 

 
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 1 Hawaii or any of its agencies is set forth shall be deemed, at
 
 2 such time, for all purposes and without any further action, to
 
 3 place a lien on land registered in the land court under this
 
 4 chapter."
 
 5      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 6 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 7      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
 
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11                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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