Bill Text: HI HB1138 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Copies; Bureau of Conveyances

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1138 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1138-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  163

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1138

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1138 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COPIES IN THE BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide the Bureau of Conveyances (Bureau) the means to more efficiently process the recordation of documents, including returning the original document to the appropriate party, by authorizing the Bureau to:

 

(1)  Accept electronic copies of plans, maps, and other documents for filing;

 

(2)  Furnish copies of instruments and documents in photographic, electronic, or electrostatic form; and

 

(3)  Convert into electronic form information or documents that were recorded prior to the effective date of this Act.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1138 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

 

 

____________________________

KEN ITO, Chair

 

 

 

 

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