STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2454

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2201
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
2201 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify when public officials
may be subpoenaed by defining "eligible public officers" and by
requiring them to testify when subpoenaed by a legislative
committee, court, judge, officer, board, or commission.

     Your Committee finds that due to the reference in the
current law to a no longer existing loyalty oath, technically, no
public official may be required to testify before a state or
county legislative committee, board, commission, or other body.
Your Committee further finds that this loophole has created
problems on occasion and notes that your Committee recommended
passage of a similar bill during the 1999 legislative session.

     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.
2201 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on
the calendar for Third Reading.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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