STAND. COM. REP. NO. 47

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 572

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 572 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SERVICE OF LEGAL PROCESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Require independent civil process servers to meet additional requirements in order to be placed on the Director of Public Safety's list of qualified civil process servers; and

     (2)  Make permanent Act 116, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, relating to persons authorized to serve legal process.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from AAA Legal Process.

     Your Committee finds that an independent civil process server may submit the server's name to the Director of Public Safety to be placed on the Director of Public Safety's list of qualified civil process servers.  Additional independent civil process server requirements improve the quality of civil process servers without placing an undue burden on individuals who seek to be included on the Director of Public Safety's list of qualified civil process servers.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 572 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair