STAND. COM. REP. NO.  727

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1202

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1202 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect Hawaii's licensees and contractors from unfair penalties by clarifying that a licensee or contractor, who inadvertently fails to maintain licensing requirements but who subsequently corrects the failure so that there was no lapse in licensure, shall not be guilty of unlicensed activity or unlicensed contracting activity, respectively.

 

     The Regulated Industries Complaints Office of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the General Contractors Association of Hawaii supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2100, to promote further discussion.

 

     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. 1202, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1202, 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair