STAND. COM. REP. 1488

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 635

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 635, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Establish the Problem Solving Courts Special Fund (Fund) to support a range of problem solving courts;

(2) Deposit in the fund, uncontested fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties collected pursuant to section 291C-171, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as well as grants, donations, and other moneys;

(3) Designate that a specific amount of these uncontested fines are to be deposited into the Judiciary Computer System Special Fund in fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005; and

(4) Appropriate funds.

The Judiciary and Hawaii State Bar Association supported this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance and Honolulu Police Department opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Requiring that a certain percentage of the fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties be deposited into the Fund, instead of only uncontested fines;

(2) Providing that a specific amount of this percentage of fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties, is to be deposited in the Judiciary Computer System Special Fund in fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 635, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 635, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair