Bill Text: HI SB2879 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Judiciary; Shorthand Reporters

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-04 - (H) Referred to JUD, referral sheet 37 [SB2879 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2879-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2506

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2879

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2879 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize certified shorthand reporters to administer oaths or affirmations and to perform duties of a deposition officer.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Court Reporters & Captioners Association and one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that court reporters do no other duties of a Notary Public except for administering an oath to a witness prior to their testifying.  Your Committee also finds that other states have passed similar legislation that allows certified court reporters to administer oaths without being Notary Publics, and that it would be advantageous for our court systems if Hawaii did the same.  Your Committee is concerned, however, that there is a question as to whether rule 28(a) of the Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure applies to Circuit Court exclusively, and believes the issue deserves further discussion.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has changed the effective date to July 1, 2050 to promote further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2879, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2879, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair