STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1212-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2551

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2551 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Judiciary to submit annual reports to the Legislature on the Judiciary's management of non-general funds.

The Judiciary and Office of the Auditor testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to:

     (1)  Require the Judiciary to report annually on its administratively created funds and accounts by replacing an amendment to chapter 601, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), with an amendment to section 37-52.5, HRS, that deletes the Judiciary's exemption from reporting; and

     (2)  Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2551, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2551, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair