STAND. COM. REP. NO.  294

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1068

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1068 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make housekeeping amendments to clarify business registration laws and to correct technical errors, ambiguities, and inconsistencies.  This measure amends statutes relating to:

 

     (1)  Business dissolutions and cancellations;

 

     (2)  Electronic transmission of notice to members of nonprofit corporations;

 

     (3)  Procedures for converting an entity into a domestic entity; and

 

     (4)  Reinstatement of general partnerships.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and University of Hawaii Professional Assembly testified in support of this bill.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1068 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair