STAND. COM. REP. NO.  216-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2695

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2695 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 allow the Judicial Selection Commission to employ staff as it deems necessary to carry out its functions as required by the Hawaii State Constitution.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Attorney General and the Judicial Selection Commission.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making nonsubstantive technical revisions and by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 2695, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2695, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair