Bill Text: HI SB891 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Notaries Public

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-23 - Act 029, 4/22/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1129). [SB891 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB891-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1001

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 891

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 891 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTARIES PUBLIC,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the regulation of notaries public by clarifying the information required to be included on a notary seal and authorizing the Attorney General, through the adoption of rules pursuant to Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to:

 

     (1)  Adjust the fee to become a notary public or to renew a notary commission; and

 

     (2)  Establish and adjust other fees related to notaries public.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 891 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair