STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1040-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2693

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2693 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to satisfy the requirements of the Hawaii Constitution by:

     (1)  Allowing any department of the executive branch to provide services to the Judicial Selection Commission (Commission);

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide various financial services to the Commission, including issuing warrants and making payments, which are consistent with the Commission's independent fiscal status; and

     (3)  Making a separate appropriation to the Commission to carry out its operations.

     The Department of the Attorney General and Commission testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2693 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair