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. 255 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form bill is to amend the law relating to the Attorney General.

Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting language proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii providing for the election of the Attorney General by qualified voters of this State.

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. 255, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 255, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, for further consideration.