Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 815 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow court costs, fees, bond forfeitures, fines, expenses, and other charges to be paid by debit card.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that on occasion, members of the public have tried, unsuccessfully, to make court payments by debit card. Because the court does not accept this method of payment, the court could not process the transaction. As debit cards become more commonly accepted as a method of payment, your Committee believes the courts should be able to provide better public service by accepting debit cards payments.

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. 815, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.