STAND. COM. REP. 2360

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2992

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 Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2992 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Taxation to recover costs of prosecution from defendants upon their convictions.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Taxation.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Taxation should be able to recover costs of prosecution from defendants upon their convictions, and your Committee believes that this measure will allow the State to make those recoveries.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2004. This measure was also amended to make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2992, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2992, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair