Bill Text: HI SB2316 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Mortuary, Cemetery, or Pre-need Funeral Authority; Disclosure Requirements; Complaints

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-06 - (H) Referred to CPC, FIN, referral sheet 40 [SB2316 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2316-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2420

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2316

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2316 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CEMETERY AND FUNERAL TRUSTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require a cemetery or pre-need funeral authority to disclose the contact information for the Regulated Industries Complaints Office to a purchaser in a written contract for services and in a written notice provided at the time merchandise or services are delivered.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Regulated Industries Complaints Office of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure recognizes consumers' potential vulnerability to unscrupulous practices when purchasing cemetery or funeral services.  This measure provides consumers with timely and important contact information that consumers may reference if they have questions or concerns about their transactions or the services rendered.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2316 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair