Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2306 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUDICIARY RECORDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Hawaii Supreme Court to determine whether to create, accept, retain, store, or convert case, fiscal, and administrative records into electronic form.

The Judiciary testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

1. Inserting the language allowing the Supreme Court to create, accept, retain, store or convert, case, fiscal, and administrative records into electronic form into section 602-5.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which already governs the disposition of Judiciary records; and
2. Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, conformity, and style.

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. 2306, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2306, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.