Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2610 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to change the name of the Intermediate Court of Appeals to the Court of Appeals.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Judiciary and the Hawaii Appellate Review Task Force.

This measure was recommended by the Hawaii Appellate Review Task Force and is part of the Judiciary's 2006 legislative package. This measure proposes a constitutional amendment to change the name of the Intermediate Court of Appeals to the Court of Appeals. Your committee notes that the mid-level appellate courts in other jurisdictions, including the courts of the United States, are most often named Court of Appeals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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. 2610, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2610, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.