STAND. COM. REP. NO.  172-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2121

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2121 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons.

 

     The Judiciary, Americans for Democratic Action, Domestic Violence Action Center, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Hoomana Pono, LLC, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Hawaii Disability Rights Center provided comments.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the amount appropriated to the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 


     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committee on Human Services respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $2,159,632 to the Judiciary for the purpose of purchasing civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2121, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2121, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair