Bill Text: HI SB850 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Notary Public Seals

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB850 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB850-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 93

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 850

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 850 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTARY PUBLIC SEALS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help deter the fraudulent use of notary seals or stamps by requiring that a notary public's commission number be included on the notary public's official seal or stamp. 

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and one private citizen.  Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website. 

 

     Your Committee finds that including a notary public's commission number on the notary public's official seal or stamp will help prevent fraud by making it easier to identify the individual who purportedly notarized particular documents and to track the activity of notaries public over time.  Your Committee further finds that the cost to individual notaries public of replacing official stamps and seals is minimal. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making one technical, nonsubstantive change to reflect existing statutory language accurately.

 

     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. 850, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 850, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair