STAND. COM. REP. NO. 305-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 2296
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2296 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE USE OF CREDIT AND DEBIT CARDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to promote court efficiency by:
(1) Authorizing the use of debit cards in making payments, including posting bail, to the courts; and
(2) Allowing the Judiciary to charge a convenience fee to cover service fees imposed upon the Judiciary for debit and credit card services.
The Judiciary testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee finds that:
(1) The proposals in this bill are reasonable and necessary, and will increase convenience to court users while allowing the courts to recover any resulting service fees; and
(2) Any convenience fee charged to a court user using a debit or credit card should not exceed the actual service fee charged to the Judiciary by the debit or credit card company.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Clarifying that no convenience fee charged to a credit or debit card user shall exceed the amount of the service charge imposed on the Judiciary for that transaction; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.
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. 2296, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2296, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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