Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1548 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish standards for the selection of County Ethics Commission members.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the State Ethics Commission.

This measure establishes standards for the selection of County Ethics Commission members. Your Committee finds that the selection process is designed to promote the impartiality and independence of Commission members.

Your Committee has amended this measure by placing the County Ethics Commission in chapter 46, Hawaii Revised Statutes, along with other provisions relating to county government.

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 S.B. No. 1548, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1548, S.D. 1.