STAND. COM. REP. NO.  910

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 290

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 290, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the operating and capital improvement costs of the Judiciary for fiscal year (FY) 2015-2016 and FY 2016-2017. 

 

     The Judiciary; Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii; Hawaii State Bar Association; Hawaii State Bar Association, Hawaii County; West Hawaii Bar Association; Legal Aid Society of Hawaii; West Hawaii Mediation Center; Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs; Kuikahi Mediation Center; Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce; Ala Kuola; Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference; Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii; and several individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

The Domestic Violence Action Center; DeCosta Hempey Meyers, LLC; and an individual provided comments.

 

     The Judiciary submitted a budget that totaled:

 

                              FY 2016          FY 2017

General Funds               $159,473,296     $162,003,867

All Means of Financing      $171,937,549     $174,487,290

 

     Following the initial budget submittal, the Judiciary modified its request and submitted a budget that appropriated:

 

                              FY 2016          FY 2017

General Funds               $156,560,157     $159,341,437

All Means of Financing      $169,024,410     $171,824,860

 

     Your Committee on Finance has amended this budget to appropriate:

 

                              FY 2016          FY 2017

General Funds               $155,359,309     $158,077,762

All Means of Financing      $167,823,562     $170,561,185

 

     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 H.B. No. 290, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 290, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair