Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 500, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the operating and capital improvement project budgets of the Judiciary for the 2005-2007 fiscal biennium.

Your Committee finds that this measure will fund critical services, facilities, and operations of the Judiciary, including appropriating $95,000,000 for the Kapolei Judiciary Complex. An immediate appropriation for the Complex is necessary to secure 13.6 acres of land from the Estate of James Campbell at no cost to the State. Your Committee is prepared to work and deliberate with members of the House of Representatives on this matter.

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 H.B. No. 500, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 500, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.