STAND. COM. REP. NO. 539

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1099

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1099 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a service mark licensing agreement program in the Department of Education to allow the department and individual schools to license service marks.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that establishing a licensing agreement program pertaining to trademarks and service marks would allow the Department of Education and its schools to engage in commercial activities, including sponsorships, and to control the use of their trademarks and service marks by third parties.

 

     Your Committee further finds that sponsorships can provide valuable financial resources for a host of educational activities that promote learning, including scholarships, field trips, and activities by school clubs and sports teams.

 

     Your Committee notes that, as it is the intent of this measure to encompass both service marks and trademarks, the use of the term "mark" would more appropriately reflect that intent.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by changing the references to service marks to the term "mark" and defining that term to include both trademarks and service marks, similar to the term's definition in section 482-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1099, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1099, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair