Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2311 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to increase the number of circuit judges in the second and third circuits from three to four judges.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary. The Office of the Public Defender provided comments as to adjacent services.

Your Committee finds that an increase in case load and overtime costs for the second circuit, combined with adult and youth drug usage in the third circuit, warrants increasing the number of judges.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making a technical, nonsubstantive change for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2311, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2311, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.