STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1222

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 135

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 135 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP REGARDING PROCESS SERVERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Request the Department of Public Safety to convene a working group regarding process servers; and

 

     (2)  Request that the working group report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that process servers play an important role in facilitating timely judicial process and protecting public safety.  However, there has been recent concern regarding process servers behaving inappropriately and abusively toward those they are serving.  Convening a working group will alleviate concerns by defining and delineating the powers and duties of process servers.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 135 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair