STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1350
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: S.B. No. 1078
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1078, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC CITATIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Establish a Statewide Electronic Citation Program within the Judiciary and require the Judiciary to adopt procedures to implement the Program; and
(2) Appropriate funds for the Statewide Electronic Citation Program.
Your Committee finds that a Statewide Electronic Citation Program will streamline and modernize the issuance and processing of citations, which will allow law enforcement to spend less time on paperwork and data entry and more time on responding to calls and community concerns. Your Committee further finds that the Statewide Electronic Citation Program will assist the Judiciary in reducing clerical issues, processing delays, and citation dismissals.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Placing the Statewide Electronic Citation Program in a more appropriate statutory chapter;
(2) Amending the definition "electronic citation" to include reference to petty misdemeanor citations; and
(3) 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 an
appropriation amount of $370,000 for full
integration of electronic citations with the Judiciary Information Management
System; $25,000 per each fiscal year for
the annual recurring cost for the licenses of the Judiciary document management
system; and $68,556 for
one permanent full-time equivalent project specialist position.
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 S.B. No. 1078, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1078, S.D. 1, 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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____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |