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. 2932 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the circuit and district courts to be open to conduct judicial business during extended hours.

Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Judiciary and the Hawaii Government Employees' Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee finds that the intent of this bill is to decrease the number of pre-trial detainees held in overcrowded jails awaiting a court hearing and to allow for warrants to be processed in a more timely manner.

In order to keep this measure alive for continued discussion, your Committee has amended this bill to insert a defective effective date of July 1, 2050.

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. 2932, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2932, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.