STAND. COM. REP. NO. 35

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1027

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1027 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified sum of money to the Judiciary for one judge and three support staff positions for the Family Court of the First Judicial Circuit.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, Family Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association, and four individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the Legislature created a judicial position and three support staff positions six years ago for the Family Court of the First Judicial Circuit.  This measure will assist the Family Court in providing critical judicial services to the community by appropriating funds to fill these positions.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

     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 S.B. No. 1027, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1027, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair