STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3304

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3080

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3080, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate supplemental funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Judiciary, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to meet the Judiciary's capital improvement project needs during the present fiscal biennium.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding a capital improvement project appropriation of $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2020-2021 for plans and design for a new judiciary complex at the Wahiawa Civic Center in Wahiawa, Oahu;

(2) Correcting the title and column headings for the program appropriations table in section 2 of the measure; and

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3080, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3080, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair