Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 39 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish Hawaii's Bill of Rights Day on December 15 annually.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the American Civil Liberties Union and one individual.

Your Committees find that an annual Bill of Rights Day would remind all members of government that government exists to serve, not to rule, the people. Furthermore, to commemorate the Bill of Rights with a special day would honor the fundamental rights it enshrines and the sacrifices made to create and preserve those rights.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 39 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.