Report Title:

Judiciary Records

 

Description:

Allows supreme court to determine whether to create, accept, retain case, fiscal, and administrative records in electronic form and to convert written case, fiscal, and administrative records to electronic records. (HB2306 HD2)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2306

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO JUDICIARY RECORDS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 602-5.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§602-5.5  [Disposition of judiciary] Judiciary records. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the supreme court shall determine whether, and the extent to which, the judiciary, will create, accept, retain, or store in electronic form any case, fiscal, and administrative records and convert written case, fiscal, and administrative records to electronic records.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 94-3, the supreme court shall determine the care, custody, and disposition of all judiciary case, fiscal, and administrative records. A record of dispositional activity shall be maintained stating whether a record was retained by the judiciary[,]; transferred to public archives, the University of Hawaii, the Hawaiian Historical Society[,]; or [other] another agency[,]; or destroyed. This record shall be kept on forms specified by the supreme court. One copy of the record shall be filed in the court where the records originated, and the original shall be filed with the administrative director of the courts or an agency designated by the director."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.