STAND. COM. REP. NO.  453-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2662

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2662 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION:  AMENDING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES AND THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES AND CLARIFYING LANGUAGE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide clarity and consistency in Hawaii law by amending various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and Session Laws of Hawaii to correct errors and references and to clarify language.

 

     The Department of Public Safety and the Legislative Reference Bureau supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2662, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2662, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair