Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1135 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that District Court fees for administrative costs associated with processing traffic citations be deposited into the judiciary computer system special fund.

Your Committee finds that the judiciary computer system special fund was created by the Legislature in 1996 to be used to upgrade the Judiciary's computer system and obtain new technology in civil, criminal, and appellate case processing. By depositing additional fees into the special fund, the Judiciary can create an up-to-date network infrastructure and a new integrated statewide judiciary information management system that will not only increase the Judiciary's efficiency, but also will improve service to the public.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended the measure to change the effective date from upon approval to July 1, 2008, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1135, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1135, S.D. 1.