Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1276 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to transfer from the Office of Elections to the Legislature, the responsibility for publishing proposed constitutional amendments in the newspaper.

The League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee deems it appropriate for legislative staff to oversee publication of proposed constitutional amendments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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 H.B. No. 1276, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1276, H.D. 1.