STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1401-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   S.B. No. 2150

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2150, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the operating and capital improvement costs of the Judicial Branch for fiscal year (FY) 2017-2018 and FY 2018-2019.

Testimony submitted on this measure can be obtained from the Legislature's website at www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

     The Judiciary submitted an operating budget that totaled:

	FY 2018	FY 2019
General Funds	$163,038,964	$164,665,936
All Means of Financing	$175,679,611	$177,306,583

     The Judiciary submitted a capital improvement budget that totaled:

	FY 2018	FY 2019
General Obligation Bonds	$7,750,000	$20,480,000

     Your Committee on Judiciary has amended this budget to appropriate the following in operating funds:

	FY 2018	FY 2019
General Funds	$163,038,964	$163,456,239
All Means of Financing	$175,679,611	$176,096,886

     Your Committee has further amended this budget to appropriate the following in capital improvement funds:

	FY 2018	FY 2019
General Obligation Bonds	$7,750,000	$6,151,000

     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. 2150, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2150, S.D. 2, 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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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair