STAND. COM. REP. NO 610

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 779

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. 779 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to raise the District Court's jurisdictional limit for civil actions involving specific performance.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Collection Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association.

     Your Committee finds that this measure corrects an inconsistency under section 604-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to align the District Court's jurisdictional limit for civil actions involving specific performance with the District Court's overall jurisdictional limit of $40,000 for civil actions.

     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. 779 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair