CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 105

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   S.B. No. 921
                                  H.D. 1
                                  C.D. 1




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

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives
in S.B. No. 921, H.D. 1, entitled:  

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISTRICT COURT," 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to provide another avenue for
the courts to regulate their own proceedings in an expeditious
and appropriate manner by creating a procedure for the issuance
of summons and bench warrants where any person fails to pay a
monetary assessment for a traffic violation.

     Your Committee on Conference finds a compelling need to
assure that violators of decriminalized traffic offenses will
comply with district court orders of default judgment for payment
of fines.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:


 
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     (1)  Providing that when a person fails to pay a monetary
          assessment for any traffic infraction, the court shall
          issue a penal summons;

     (2)  Providing that when a person fails to pay the
          assessments and fails to appear before the court at the
          specified time and place, then the court shall issue a
          bench warrant; and

     (3)  Providing that if a person refuses to pay the
          assessments or fails to pay within a specified period
          of time, the monetary assessments shall be considered
          delinquent and subject to collection by the Department
          of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of S.B. No. 921, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 921, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted,

MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE        MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE
            HOUSE                             SENATE
                                   
                                   
                                   
______________________________     ______________________________
PAUL T. OSHIRO, Co-Chair           AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
______________________________     ______________________________
KENNY GOODENOW, Co-Chair           MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
______________________________     ______________________________
ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Member           LES IHARA, JR., Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
______________________________     ______________________________
SCOTT K. SAIKI, Member             NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
______________________________     ______________________________
PAUL WHALEN, Member                WHITNEY ANDERSON, Member

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