STAND. COM. REP. NO. 677

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 900
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 900 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a uniform fee of
$100 for all probate actions involving a decedent's estate.

     Specifically, this measure eliminates all fees except the
one-time only fee for probate, administration, or ancillary
administration.  Furthermore, this bill adds domiciliary foreign
personal representative to the items covered under the one-time
only fee.

     Your Committee finds that simplification of the fee
structure for probate actions involving a decedent's estate will
promote efficiency within the Judiciary.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical
nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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.

 
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900, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 900, S.D. 1.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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