Bill Text: HI HB1278 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sheriff; Service Fees; Court Fees; Serving Officers; Police

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Fale, McDermott voting no (2) and Representative(s) Carroll, Coffman, Hanohano, Har, Kawakami, Ward excused (6). [HB1278 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1278-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  225

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1278

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1278 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COURT FEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide more adequate monetary compensation to law enforcement and other serving officers by increasing various fees for services related to the service of process.

 

     The Department of Public Safety and a concerned individual supported this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee notes that with the change in law last year to permit any person "approved by the court" to serve process, any person over 18 years of age and not a party to the lawsuit may serve process, which may present challenges for those requiring a service of process.  Your Committee encourages subsequent committees, should they choose to hear this measure, to also consider the broader issue of who is qualified to serve civil process while contemplating fee increases.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making unspecified all fee amounts; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1278, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1278, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair