Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 618 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the type of delinquent receivables that the Judiciary may write off as uncollectible, to include fines, restitution, monetary assessments, fees, surcharges, penalties, sanctions, and court costs.

Your Committee finds that under existing law, the Judiciary is only authorized to write off delinquent fines and restitution that have been uncollectible for at least two years.

Your Committee has amended the bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to permit further discussion of the issues raised and making technical nonsubstantive changes for consistency, clarity, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 618, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 618, S.D. 1.