STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1187

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 586

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 586, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require and appropriate funds for the Judiciary to develop, implement, and administer an automated court appearance reminder system that generates text message and electronic mail notifications for scheduled future court appearances; and

(2) Require a person making an arrest or issuing a citation to document the offender's mobile telephone number and electronic mail address or a mobile telephone number and electronic mail address at which the offender may be reliably contacted.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Public Defender, Opportunity Youth Action Hawai‘i, and four individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 586, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 586, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair