STAND. COM. REP. NO.900

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1136

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1136 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE DRIVER'S LICENSE REVOCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to remove law enforcement mileage fees from the costs covered by processing fees for administrative driver's license revocation hearings.

Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies an amendment enacted in Act 157, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, which provided that the costs of issuing subpoenas for witnesses, including mileage fees, are to be borne by the party requesting the subpoena.

However, your Committee finds that an inadvertent drafting error in Act 157 retained apparently contradictory language in the prior version of the statute. In particular, Act 157 did not delete the reference to law enforcement mileage fees from the list of administrative costs covered under the $30 statutory charge for fees and costs.

Your Committee finds that this measure eliminates confusion by clarifying that the party requesting the subpoena must pay for the law enforcement mileage fees as with any other witness mileage fees, in addition to the $30 fee.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make a technical nonsubstantive change.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1136, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1136, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair