Bill Text: HI SB2157 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: ADLRO Hearing; Costs; Venue; Remote Conferencing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 33 [SB2157 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2157-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2410

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2157

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2157, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE LICENSE REVOCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the administrative driver's license revocation hearing fee from $30 to $40.

 

     The measure also:

 

     (1)  Shifts the cost of mailing a request for an administrative hearing from the Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office to the person requesting the hearing; and

 

     (2)  Allows the Administrative Director of the Courts to authorize hearings to be held:

 

          (A)  In a county other than the county where the notice of administrative revocation was issued; and

 

          (B)  By telephone, video, or other electronic means.

 

     Your Committee finds that the current administrative revocation hearing fee of $30 was established in 2000.  The caseload of the Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office, however, has increased by fifty-six per cent since then.  The fee increase proposed in this measure will assist in meeting the cost of the increased workload.  Your Committee also finds that requiring the person requesting the administrative hearing to pay the postage for the request, and allowing the Administrative Director of the Courts to conduct hearings in a county other than the county of the arrest, or by electronic means, will result in further cost savings for the Judiciary.  The financial benefits of this measure are especially important to the State during this current economic crisis.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2157, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair