Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 818 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is remove law enforcement mileage fees from the costs covered by administrative hearing processing fees.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Judiciary and the Honolulu Police Department, Traffic Division. One individual opposed the measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure makes clear that a respondent who was scheduled for an administrative hearing and who requested subpoenas for law enforcement witnesses to that hearing, must bear the cost for mileage fees for those witnesses.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to September 1, 2003; and

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 H.B. No. 818, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 818, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.