STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1171

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2025

 

RE:   H.B. No. 400

      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. 400 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 for the operating and capital improvement costs of the Judiciary Branch for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.

 

     As introduced, this measure appropriates:

 

Operating

 

FY 2025-2026

FY 2026-2027

GENERAL FUNDS

203,319,009

203,391,600

ALL MEANS OF FINANCE

216,164,762

216,237,353

 

Capital Improvements

 

FY 2025-2026

FY 2026-2027

GENERAL FUNDS

0

0

GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS

9,900,000

0

ALL MEANS OF FINANCE

9,900,000

0

 

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary; Department of Education; The Legal Clinic; Volunteer Legal Services Hawaiʻi; Hawaii State Bar Association; and Legal Aid Society of Hawaiʻi.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from SanHi Government Strategies.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying capital improvement projects amounts and cost elements;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As amended, this measure appropriates:

 

Operating

 

FY 2025-2026

FY 2026-2027

GENERAL FUNDS

203,319,009

203,391,600

ALL MEANS OF FINANCE

216,164,762

216,237,353

 

Capital Improvements

 

FY 2025-2026

FY 2026-2027

GENERAL FUNDS

0

0

GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS

11,900,000

0

ALL MEANS OF FINANCE

11,900,000

0

 

     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. 400, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 400, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

____________________________

KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair