STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2163

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2606

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2606 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BAIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to deposit unclaimed bail money with the Director of Finance of the State.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that, based upon a report by the Judiciary, the amount of unclaimed bail that has been escheated the last several years is as follows:

(1) $110,217.75 for fiscal year 2003;

(2) $53,458.50 for fiscal year 2004;

(3) $159,561.95 for fiscal year 2005; and

(4) $16,589 for fiscal year 2006 (as of February 6, 2006).

Your Committee also finds that the Judiciary concluded that it would not be appropriate to escheat unclaimed bail funds to the court. Based upon the Judiciary's review of section 37-62, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the funds must escheat to the general fund.

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. 2606 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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,

		____________________________ COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair