STAND. COM. REP. NO.41

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1135

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1135 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require certain district court filing fees to be deposited into the Judiciary computer system special fund.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Judiciary. Testimony in opposition was received from Hawaii Moms and Dads 4 Kids.

This measure requires fees received from moving and non-moving traffic citations and from motor vehicle and owner violations to be deposited into the Judiciary computer system special fund. By depositing the fees into the special fund, the users of the court system will directly support the implementation of an integrated judiciary information management system that will allow the Judiciary to greatly increase its efficiency by upgrading the court's outdated, fragmented, and badly overloaded computer system.

Auditor Report No. 1-12, July 2001, regarding audits of special and revolving funds, audited the Judiciary computer special fund and found: "The fund continues to serve the purpose for which it was originally created and has enabled the Judiciary to undertake its Judicial Information Management System (JIMS) project.... Depositing a portion of fees collected by other courts into this special fund would be an appropriate financing mechanism because JIMS will benefit the users of all courts."

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. 1135 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair