STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2390

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2082

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2082 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND COURT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize revisions, amendments, additions, and deletions to the fee schedule for services provided by the Office of the Registrar of the Land Court, Assistant Registrars of the Bureau of Conveyances, and State Land Surveyor to be established by the Supreme Court by rule of court, by the Department of Land and Natural Resources by administrative rules, and by the Department of Accounting and General Services by administrative rules, respectively.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committees find that this measure does not attempt to alter or amend the existing schedule of fee items but rather seeks to clarify and establish that the respective branch of government or department may establish and amend, from time to time, its own schedule of fees for the services it performs.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2082 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Judiciary and Labor,

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair

____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair