STAND. COM. REP. NO. 259

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1538

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1538 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Judiciary for capital improvement projects for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that, as received by your Committee, this measure would authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate $16,225,000 to the Judiciary for capital improvement projects throughout the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating an additional $5,000,000 in general obligation bond funds for the Kaahumanu Hale elevator systems upgrades and modernization project on Oahu.

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 S.B. No. 1538, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1538, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair