New Hawaii conveyance bill signed

A new conveyance bill, singed by Governor Lingle, gives much need efficiency at the Bureau of Conveyance.  This new bill will allow for electronic signatures and for documents to be archived digitally, rather than the archaic microfilm.  All property transactions are recorded either through the regular system, or through Land Court and documents have been kept in micro film.  But, now with the new bill, the state of Hawaii is one step closer to having everything online and easily accessible.  Because of the massive budget shortfalls, there is no money currently available to make the change, but the bill will allow the department to begin to prepare for the eventual changes.

Renewed focus came upon the department a couple of years ago when the processing and recording of documents took months to finally be avaialble.  Since that time, there has been scrutiny on how to make the department more efficient and also user friendly to the publc.