Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2620 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the filing date of nomination papers to be a candidate for the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA).

Your Committee finds that the current statute requires candidates for the Board of Trustees of OHA to file their nomination papers sixty days prior to the general election. This measure would conform the filing deadline for OHA candidates with the July filing deadline required of all other candidates to federal, state, or county elective offices, fostering equity and clarifying the filing process.

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. 2620 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.