STAND. COM. REP. NO.  402-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1638

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1638 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate supplemental funds for the operating and capital improvement costs of the Judicial Branch for fiscal year 2014-2015.

The Judiciary, County of Hawaii Office of the Corporation Counsel, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Hawaii State Bar Association, and West Hawaii Bar Association testified in support of this measure.  The Domestic Violence Action Center provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Appropriating an additional $131,000 in general funds to the First Circuit (JUD 310) for purchase of service contracts;

     (2)  Making permanent one mental health social worker position; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1638, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair