THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Senator Brian T. Taniguchi, Chair

Senator Dwight Y. Takamine, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, March 6, 2009

TIME:

[11:00  a.m.]   9:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 619, SD1

        (SSCR275)

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO VOTING.

Allows incarcerated persons who were Hawaii residents at the time of their arrest to vote only by absentee ballot in Hawaii's elections.  (SD1)

 

PSM, JGO

SB 846

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO POST CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS.

Establishes a time limitation for filing habeas corpus complaints and post-conviction judicial proceedings.  Limits successive complaints.

 

JGO

[Measure added on 3/05/09]

 

 

Decision Making Only, No Oral Testimony Will Be Accepted.

 

Persons wishing to comment should submit their comments in one of the following ways:

 

·         By Email:  Comments may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at JGOTestimony@Capitol.hawaii.gov .  Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.

 

·         By Web: Comments may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.

 

·         In person:  1 copy of their Comments to the committee clerk, Room 219, State Capitol.

 

·         By fax:  Comments may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.  When faxing, please indicate to which committee the comments is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.

 

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

 

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

Please note:  All comments received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website.  Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6460.

 

 

 

 

 

________________________________________

Senator Brian T. Taniguchi

Chair