STAND. COM. REP. NO. 514-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2483
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2483 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make business registration
requirements and procedures more consistent.  This bill provides
a one-step amendment of articles of organization for limited
liability companies and makes housekeeping clarifications in the
law.  

     Hawaii business law has many features unique to this State
or that exist in only a very small minority of other states.  The
amendments in this bill would serve to make Hawaii's business law
more uniform with the majority of other states, and conducive to
the free flow of commerce and the formation of business entities
in this State.

     Testimony was received in support of this measure from the
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Business Law
Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association, and two private
attorneys.

     Your Committee has admended this bill to correct certain
typographic, technical, and stylistic errors.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to

 
 
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this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2483, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2483, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair