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. 2604 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to remove the chief judge's discretion to assign judges to an intermediate appellate court panel.

The Judiciary testified in support of this bill. The Recorder of the Appellate Review Task Force offered comments.

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. 2604 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.