STAND. COM. REP. 3130

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2292

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2292, H.D. 1, 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 measure is to improve court operations through the application of technological advances.

Specifically, this measure deposits into the Judiciary Computer System Special Fund fees prescribed by the Hawaii Supreme Court for the electronic filing, signing, serving, certification, and verification of documents. This measure takes effect on July 1, 2004 and is repealed on June 30, 2007.

Your Committee finds that 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.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by specifying in section 6 of the bill that the repealed sections are to be reenacted in the form in which they read on June 30, 2004, rather than on an unspecified "day before the approval of this Act" because approval could occur after July 1, 2004.

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 H.B. No. 2292, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2292, H.D. 1, 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