STAND. COM. REP. NO. 347

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1106
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
1106 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE
     ATTORNEY GENERAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to allow the Attorney General to act as a collection agency on
behalf of state agencies for collection of delinquent accounts,
and to establish a civil recoveries special fund for deposit of
monies collected by the Attorney General.

     Your Committee finds that collections operations are
presently being funded by the agencies, which restricts the use
of staff within the Attorney General's Collections Unit to
collections on behalf of the funding agency.  Funding collections
operations on a state-wide basis will allow more efficient use of
staff in pursuing collection of monies due to all State agencies.
Your Committee further finds that this measure will give the
Attorney General greater flexibility in fee arrangements with its
client agencies for collections, because it will be possible for
the Attorney General to pursue collections on a contingency
basis.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Attorney General, the Department of Commerce and Consumer
Affairs, the Board of Agriculture, and the Hawaii Health Systems
Corporation.

 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:

     (1)  Adding a provision to specify that the Attorney General
          shall be responsible for collection of unpaid traffic
          fines, and allowing the department to retain a percent
          of the revenues collected; and

     (2)  Making technical, non-substantive changes for purposes
          of clarity and style.

     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.
1106, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



                                   ______________________________
                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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