STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3295

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2697

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2697, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Intermediate Appellate Court to subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses from any part of the State and to compel the production of books, papers, documents, or tangible things.

     This measure also authorizes any judge of the Intermediate Appellate Court to administer oaths thereto.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary.

     Testimony indicated that there are some statutes which provide for the Intermediate Appellate Court to take in evidence (trial de novo), hence the necessity for this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2697, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2697, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair