Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1460, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of associate judges on the intermediate appellate court from three to five.

The Judiciary submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, for purposes of further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1460, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1460, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.