STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3319

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2649
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
2649, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NONCONSENSUAL COMMON LAW
     LIENS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require that a claim of lien
against a government official or employee so state in its
pleading header, and that the registrar not accept such a claim
unless it is accompanied by a court order.  The bill also
specifies that a person who submits an invalid court order in
support of such a lien is guilty of tampering with a government
record.

     Your Committee finds that there continues to be a problem of
frivolous liens placed upon government employees' real property.
This measure will better balance the needs of the interested
parties when a lien is sought on a government employee's
property.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Judiciary and the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2649, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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