Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2624 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the requirement that an applicant for the position of the Judiciary's administrator of the courts be a resident of the State of Hawaii for at least three years.

The Judiciary testified in support of the measure.

Your Committee finds that repealing the three-year residency requirement will provide the Judiciary with a larger pool of applicants for the position of administrator of the courts from which to choose.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making a technical amendment that deletes a reference to a chapter in the Hawaii Revised Statutes that will be repealed on July 1, 2002, and changed the effective date of the bill to July 1, 2002, to ensure conformity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2624, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2624, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.