STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1139

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 560

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 560, 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 appropriate funds to the Judiciary for services contracted with community-based organizations that deliver essential services, streamline judicial processes, and support the Judiciary's capacity to effectively meet the needs of vulnerable households.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Parents And Children Together; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; Hawai‘i Youth Services Network; Community Alliance on Prisons; Hawai‘i True Cost Coalition; The Legal Clinic; Catholic Charities Hawai‘i; EPIC ‘Ohana; Aloha United Way; Child & Family Service; Hawai‘i Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations; Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center; The Institute for Human Services, Inc.; The Mediation Center of the Pacific, Inc.; Partners in Development Foundation; Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc.; Responsive Caregivers of Hawaii; Samaritan Counseling Center Hawaii; YMCA of Honolulu; Volunteer Legal Services Hawai‘i; Share Your Mana; YWCA of Kaua‘i; Hawai‘i Children's Action Network Speaks!; Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center; and SanHi Government Strategies. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary and Department of Human Services.

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. 560, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair