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 S.B. No. 1864 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation from the Judiciary Computer System Special Fund to cover unexpected costs associated with the implementation of the Judiciary Information Management System.

Your Committee finds that the Judiciary is in the process of implementing the traffic module of the Judiciary Information Management System, which is an integrated case management system aimed at improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and accessibility of the courts in the State. In this massive undertaking, the Judiciary faces some unanticipated costs in the actual implementation of the system. With the emergency appropriation, the Judiciary will be able to cover these costs that would otherwise cause it to exceed the current fiscal year's appropriation.

Your Committee amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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. 1864, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1864, S.D. 1.