STAND. COM. REP. NO. 193
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 153
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 153 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNLICENSED CONTRACTING ACTIVITY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee finds that a contract for work performed by an unlicensed contractor is illegal; therefore, allowing an unlicensed contractor to use the value of its work as an offset enables the unlicensed contractor to receive gain from the illegal contract. This measure would clarify the calculation of the value paid or lost by a victim for the purpose of determining the offense of unlicensed contractor fraud in the first or second degree.
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. 153 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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