Bill Text: HI SB2775 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Publicity Rights

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-28 - (S) Act 062, 4/25/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 525). [SB2775 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2775-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 897-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2775

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2775, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLICITY RIGHTS NAMES AS DISTINGUISHED FROM TRADE NAMES AND SPECIFYING REGISTRATION PROCEDURES FOR PUBLICITY RIGHTS NAMES BY AMENDING CHAPTER 482P,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the publicity rights trade name law by, among other things:

 

(1)  Renaming "publicity rights trade name" as "publicity rights name" to distinguish it from trade names and trademarks;

 

(2)  Specifying procedures for registering a publicity rights name; and

 

(3)  Limiting the term of registration to five years and allowing renewal of the registration.

 

     The Business Registration Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that the amendments made by this bill will improve the process of registering publicity rights names under the publicity rights chapter, which was established last year by Act 29, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.  The amendments will eliminate confusion and allow DCCA to more efficiently implement the registration process.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill to encourage further discussion by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2775, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2775, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair