STAND. COM. REP. NO. 413-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2292

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2292 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES FOR ELECTRONIC FILING, SIGNING, SERVING, CERTIFICATION, AND VERIFICATION OF COURT DOCUMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require that the fees prescribed by the Supreme Court for electronic filing, signing, serving, certification, and verification of documents be deposited into the Judiciary Computer System Special Fund (Special Fund).

The Judiciary testified in support of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that:

(1) This measure will allow the Judiciary to update and improve its computer systems to the benefit of those who use the electronic-filing capabilities described in this bill; and

(2) The deposit of the subject fees into the Special Fund should be reviewed by the Legislature in 2007.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Adding relevant language to the section in the Hawaii Revised Statutes that establishes the Special Fund;

(2) Adding a sunset date of June 30, 2007; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2292, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2292, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair