Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1983, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the chief justice to suspend court deadlines during a period of civil defense emergency.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that this measure would provide the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court with a useful tool for temporarily preserving the rights of litigants during a civil defense emergency. Your Committee also notes that this suspension applies to statutory deadlines.

Your Committee has amended this measure to change the effective date from January 1, 2020, to July 1, 2006.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1983, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1983, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.