Bill Text: HI SB25 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Hawaii Revised Statutes; Supreme Court

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB25 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB25-Introduced.html

Report Title:

Hawaii Revised Statutes; Supreme Court

 

Description:

Clarifies the Supreme Court's authority with respect to costs and fees.

 


THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

25

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to hawaii revised statutes.

 

 

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

 


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

     "§607-1  [Power of supreme] Supreme court [with respect to]; costs and fees.  The supreme court shall have the power by rule of court, from time to time[,] to [revise, amend, add to,]:

     (1)  Revise or [eliminate] repeal any [of the items of] costs [and] or fees provided in this chapter[, to prescribe such];

     (2)  Prescribe any costs and fees as it deems reasonable in all cases not therein provided [for,]; and [to prescribe]

     (3)  Prescribe the amount of the costs and fees to be paid in advance to the clerk of any court in any judicial proceeding [on account of the costs and fees]."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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