STAND. COM. REP. 106

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 979

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 979 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL PROCESS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the process by which an individual may serve process papers on a defendant. This bill:

(1) Establishes a Civil Process Commission (Commission) within the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to administer the service of civil process;

(2) Sets forth the qualifications and other requirements for private process servers and civil court officers;

(3) Requires certain servers to register with the Commission; and

(4) Specifies the standards of conduct for private process servers.

DPS supported the intent of this measure, provided that it does not adversely impact on the department's priorities contained in the Executive biennium budget request.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 979 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Labor and Public Employment,

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair

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KEN ITO, Chair