STAND. COM. REP. NO.  647-22

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2022

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1536

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1536 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate supplemental funds for the Judiciary through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, Hawaii State Bar Association, Appellate Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association, Hawaii County Bar Association, West Hawaii Bar Association, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Hawaii Access to Justice Commission, and Legal Aid Society of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the supplemental appropriations made by this measure will assist the Judiciary in its efforts to fulfill its constitutional, statutory, and public service duties.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider appropriating:

 

     (1)  $2,000,000 for reintegration programs, including education, culture, and vocational training programs to be coordinated by the Judiciary;

 

     (2)  $50,000 for the technology development phase of the Criminal Pretrial Data Reporting and Collection System for Act 179, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, on behalf of the Criminal Justice Research Institute;

 

     (3)  $750,000 for the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii;

 

     (4)  $250,000 for Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii;

 

     (5)  $5,000,000 for the Kaahumanu Hale fire alarm replacement; and

 

     (6)  $1,500,000 for the Kaahumanu Hale expansion and reconfiguration of the sheriff patrol station and the main security checkpoint.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1536, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1536, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair