STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1232-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: S.B. No. 2606
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2606 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BAIL,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to remove the need for a court order to effect the escheat of bail money that has not been declared forfeited and that remains unclaimed for at least two years after final disposition of the case for which the money was deposited.
The Judiciary supported this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Providing that bail money that has not been declared forfeited and that remains unclaimed for at least two years after final disposition of the case for which the money was deposited shall be presumed abandoned under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act; and
(2) Specifying that this bill applies to all bail money held at the time of its enactment, or at any time thereafter.
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 S.B. No. 2606, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2606, 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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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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