STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1291

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 921
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 921 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISTRICT COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement
that multiple offenses be charged "through complaint or
indictment" with respect to district court's concurrent
jurisdiction with family court.

     Your Committee received testimony from the Department of the
Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds a compelling need to assure that
violators of decriminalized traffic offenses will comply with
district court orders of default judgment for payment of fines.
Your Committee finds that the creation of a violation where the
cited individual fails to answer to the citation will allow the
district court to issue a summons; if the summons is then
ignored, the court may then issue a bench warrant.  Consequently,
this would address specifically individuals who ignore traffic
citations.

     Your Committee amended this bill by deleting its substance
and inserting an amendment to Chapter 291C of the Hawaii Revised
Statutes which creates a violation where any person fails to
answer to a citation or a summons for a traffic violation.


 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 921, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
921, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair