Bill Text: HI HB2601 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Department of Public Safety; Judiciary; Service of Process; Authorized Persons
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-21 - (S) Act 142, 6/20/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). [HB2601 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2601-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 740-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2601
H.D. 3
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2601, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to increase the efficiency of the Department of Public Safety by:
(1) Allowing persons authorized by the rules of court to serve non-criminal legal process in addition to sheriffs and police officers;
(2) Reserving the responsibility to serve criminal summons, warrants, attachments, and other criminal processes to sheriffs and police officers; and
(3) Removing inconsistencies in language throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes regarding service of process.
The Department of Public Safety testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing its effective date to upon approval; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 2601, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2601, H.D. 3.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair |
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