STAND. COM. REP. NO. 635

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 902
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 902 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECORDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Judiciary to
collect a fee of $5 at the time of an initial filing of a civil
action in the circuit courts for the costs involved in records
storage and associated services.

     Your Committee finds that court records, like many other
government records are required to be retained anywhere from two
years to an indefinite period.  These records take up space, must
be microfilmed in some cases, and occasionally must be retrieved
from their storage locations.  These efforts take up time and
money, which can be offset by the addition of a surcharge on all
initial civil case filings.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by correctly
identifying the fund as the records management revolving fund on
pages 2 and 3, and made a technical, nonsubstantive change on
page 2, line 16.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.

 
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902, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 902, S.D. 1.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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