STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1694-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2102

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2102, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate supplemental funds for the operating and capital improvement costs of the Judiciary for fiscal year (FY) 2016-2017.

The Judiciary, Office of the Public Defender, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Hawaii State Bar Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii Chapter, Park & Kim A Limited Liability Law Company, and several concerned individuals supported this measure.

The Judiciary submitted a supplemental budget that totaled:

FY 2017

General Funds               $160,409,874

All Means of Financing      $172,893,297

Your Committee on Finance has amended this supplemental budget to appropriate:

FY 2017

General Funds               $154,566,130

All Means of Financing      $165,187,337

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2102, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2102, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair