Bill Text: HI HB1942 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-12 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Amato, Lowen, Nakashima, Quinlan, Todd excused (5). [HB1942 Detail]

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1942

THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to corporations.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 414, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§414-     Real property; dissolved corporations; escheatment to State.  (a)  Real property assets of a dissolved corporation not transferred to a creditor, claimant, or shareholder of the corporation shall escheat to the State if:

     (1)  Real property taxes assessed by county real property tax ordinance against the land and any improvements thereon have been unpaid for five years;

     (2)  Any state tax liens, if the same are recorded in the bureau of conveyances as provided by section 231-33, have been unpaid for five years; and

     (3)  The State shows that reasonable efforts were made by the State to locate a creditor, claimant, or shareholder of the dissolved corporation, and have been unsuccessful.

     (b)  In all cases where real property of a dissolved corporation escheats to the State pursuant to subsection (a), the attorney general shall proceed in accordance with section 665-1."

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 414D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§414D-     Real property; dissolved corporations; escheatment to State.  (a)  Real property assets of a dissolved corporation not transferred to a creditor, claimant, or shareholder of the corporation shall escheat to the State if:

     (1)  Real property taxes assessed by county real property tax ordinance against the land and any improvements thereon have been unpaid for five years;

     (2)  Any state tax liens, if the same are recorded in the bureau of conveyances as provided by section 231-33, have been unpaid for five years; and

     (3)  The State shows that reasonable efforts were made by the State to locate a creditor, claimant, or shareholder of the dissolved corporation, and have been unsuccessful.

     (b)  In all cases where real property of a dissolved corporation escheats to the State pursuant to subsection (a), the attorney general shall proceed in accordance with section 665-1."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Real Property; Dissolved Corporations; Escheatment

 

Description:

Permits real property assets of a dissolved corporation to escheat to the State if a creditor, claimant, or shareholder of the corporation cannot be found; real property taxes and any state tax liens have remained unpaid for five years; and the State makes a showing that attempts to locate creditors, claimants, and shareholders of the dissolved corporation have been unsuccessful.

 

 

 

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