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 S.B. No. 2611 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the scope of vexatious litigants law to prohibit and sanction the vexatious conduct of all parties.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Children's Rights Council of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that this measure, initiated by the Judiciary, gives equal footing to both plaintiffs and defendants by prohibiting and sanctioning the vexatious conduct of all parties.

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 S.B. No. 2611 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.