STAND. COM. REP. R2922-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2299

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPELLATE COURT COSTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to streamline the Judiciary's processing of appellate fees and costs.

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

Your Committee finds that currently, the clerk of the trial court collects fees and costs from an appellant, deposits the money into the trial court's trust fund, and then writes a check for the fees and costs to the Supreme Court clerk. Both the money deposited into the trial court trust fund and the money collected by the Supreme Court clerk is deposited into the general fund. Thus, to eliminate the duplicative process, this measure amends current provisions by requiring the trial court clerk to provide notice of the payment to the Supreme Court clerk, eliminating the requirement to write checks and multiple deposits between courts.

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 H.B. No. 2299, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair