Bill Text: HI HB2272 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Land Surveying; Professional Land Surveyors; Landscape Architects

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-10 - (S) Recommitted to CPN. [HB2272 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2272-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3139

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2272

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

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 H.B. No. 2272, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add a definition of "land surveying", clarify the definition of "landscape architect", and replace the definition of "surveyor" or "land surveyor" with a definition of "professional surveyor", "professional land surveyor", or "land surveyor".

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Regulated Industries Complaints Office of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that the existing definition for "surveyor" or "land surveyor" is outdated and does not reflect the full scope and practice of land surveying.  The clarified definition of "land surveying" proposed by this measure provides a more accurate description of the activities involved in the practice of land surveying.

 

     Your Committee notes that the companion to this measure, S.B. No. 2167, S.D. 1, which was previously passed by the Senate, is a substantively similar measure with technical, nonsubstantive differences.  Your Committee also notes that this measure and S.B. No. 2167, S.D. 1, represent the combined efforts of the Board of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects; industry groups; and the Regulated Industries Complaints Office to update existing definitions that would capture the full range of conduct performed by land surveyors.  However, your Committee additionally finds that the language and formatting of S.B. No. 2167, S.D. 1, are preferable.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing its contents with the contents of S.B. No. 2167, S.D. 1; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date in S.B. No. 2167, S.D. 1, to upon approval.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2272, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2272, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, 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