Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2400 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create an office of civil process commission for the regulation of civil process servers.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Hawaii Deputy Sheriffs' Association. Testimony in opposition was received from the Judiciary, Department of Public Safety, Maui Collection Service, Inc., Credit Associates of Maui, Ltd., Hawaiian Collectors Association, Kauai Credit Adjusters, Ltd., Doctors Business Bureau, Collection Agency of Hawaii, Inc., Process Servers Exclusive, Reliable Process Service, Honolulu Information Service, and two private citizens. Commentary was submitted by the Insurance Commissioner.

This measure also requires a certificate of registration for persons who serve more than ten services of process in one year, and for civil court officers (persons certified as civil deputies under the Department of Public Safety civil branch and listed with the Judiciary as a civil deputy as of November 1, 2001).

While testimony was heavily in opposition to this measure, your Committee finds that this measure would serve to organize and professionalize civil process servers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding an unspecified appropriation to the Judiciary for start-up costs for the office of civil process commission.

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. 2400, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2400, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.