Report Title:

Temporary Restraining Orders; Appropriation

 

Description:

Authorizes the judiciary to establish a three-year statewide family court electronic temporary restraining order pilot project to allow the filing and issuance of temporary restraining orders on nights and weekends.  Makes an appropriation.  (SB2806 SD1)

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2806

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The judiciary may establish a three-year statewide family court pilot project for the electronic filing of temporary restraining orders and the issuance of temporary restraining orders on nights and weekends, when the courts are closed.

     In establishing the pilot project, the judiciary may examine the electronic temporary restraining order program initiated by New Jersey, known as "E-TRO".

     The judiciary may also consider allowing electronic signatures of family court judges and complainants on nights and weekends and allowing complaints to appear immediately on the judiciary's website for service and enforcement.

     The police departments in each county and the prosecuting attorneys in each county shall cooperate with the judiciary to develop and implement the components of the pilot project.

     The judiciary may submit to the legislature interim reports of the pilot project, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular sessions of 2009 and 2010, and a final report, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2011, that include information and recommendations about the efficacy of, and costs associated with, the electronic temporary restraining order pilot project, including whether the electronic temporary restraining order pilot project should be made permanent.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for a family court electronic temporary restraining order pilot project to be established by the judiciary.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2080.