Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2797 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to propose an amendment to the state constitution to raise the mandatory retirement age of justices and judges from seventy to eighty years.

Your Committee made technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2797, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2797, S.D. 1.