Bill Text: HI SB879 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Witnesses in Criminal Cases; Per Diem Payments
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-13 4:15PM in conference room 325. [SB879 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB879-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1113
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: S.B. No. 879
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 879, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WITNESSES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Specifying that the per diem rate for out-of-state witnesses shall increase from $110 to $145 and that witnesses traveling from another island within the State who are required to stay overnight shall receive an additional $90 per twenty-four hour day; and
(2) Making the measure effective upon its approval.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 879, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 879, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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