Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 264 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the law relating to courts.

Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting language allowing defendants traveling from the islands of Molokai and Lanai to attend criminal cases being heard in the second judicial circuit to be reimbursed for travel expenses and provided per diem by the State.

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. 264, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 264, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, for further consideration.