Bill Text: HI HB301 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Judiciary Computer System Special Fund; Fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-31 - (H) Act 060, on 5/26/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1163). [HB301 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-HB301-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

301

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

C.D. 1

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY COMPUTER SYSTEM SPECIAL FUND.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 601-3.7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There is established in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the judiciary computer system special fund[.], which shall contain the following:

     (1)  Moneys collected from administrative fees pursuant to section 287-3(a) [and fees];

     (2)  Fees prescribed by the supreme court by rule of court for electronic document certification, electronic copies of documents, and for providing bulk access to electronic court records and compilations of data; and

     (3)  Fees pursuant to sections 607-4(b)(10) and 607‑5(c)(32) [shall be deposited into the fund]."

     SECTION 2.  Section 607-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§607-1  Power of supreme court with respect to costs and fees.  The supreme court shall have power by rule of court, from time to time, to revise, amend, add to, or eliminate any of the items of costs and fees provided in this chapter, to prescribe such costs and fees as it deems reasonable in all cases not therein provided for, and to prescribe the amount to be paid in advance to the clerk of any court in any proceeding on account of the costs and fees.  All fees prescribed by the supreme court by rule of court for electronic document certification, electronic copies of documents, and for providing bulk access to electronic court records and compilations of data shall be deposited into the judiciary computer system special fund."

     SECTION 3.  Section 607-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§607-2  Fees to be accounted for.  With the exception of [such fees as are] fees prescribed by the supreme court by rule of court for electronic document certification, electronic copies of documents, and for providing bulk access to electronic court records and compilations of data, which shall be deposited into the judiciary computer system special fund, and fees intended to reimburse officers for actual expenditures made by them, all judges', clerks', sheriffs', and deputy sheriffs' fees provided for in this chapter and accruing from any action pending in any court shall be deposited to the credit of the general fund of the State."

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2011.


 


 

Report Title:

Judiciary Computer System Special Fund; Fees

 

Description:

Directs into the Judiciary Computer System Special Fund fees collected for electronic document certification, electronic copies of documents, and for providing bulk access to electronic court records and compilations of data.  Effective July 1, 2011.  (HB301 CD1)

 

 

 

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