Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 500 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide the necessary appropriations and authorizations for the operation of and capital improvements for the Judiciary for fiscal biennium 2005-2007.

The Judiciary testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that while the proposed Kapolei Judiciary Complex will help accommodate the courts and programs of the First Judicial Circuit, the $95 million in capital improvement funds requested for this project for fiscal year 2005-2006 is a significantly large sum request for a single fiscal year. Your Committee respectfully requests the Judiciary to investigate the possibility of phasing in construction of the complex to lower the financial impact of this project on the State.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Amending the operating budget to provide:

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. 500, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 500, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.