STAND. COM. REP. NO. 615

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 98

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 98 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 Judiciary and 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, in order 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.

     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. 98, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 98, S.D. 1, 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