Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2599 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the intermediate appellate court's jurisdiction in appellate cases related to geothermal resource subzones, income taxes, access to correctional facilities and records, and disciplinary actions concerning the occupations of barbering and cosmetology, and clarify the requirements for payment of appellate filing fees and costs.

The Judiciary testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to the effective date of sections 1 through 82 of Act 202, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.

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 S.B. No. 2599, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2599, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.