STAND. COM. REP. NO.  601

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 838

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 838, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation of $732,430 for fiscal year 2010-2011, to support the functions of the Office of Elections, the Elections Commission, and the Reapportionment Commission with regard to reapportionment.

     The Office of Elections testified in support of this bill.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 103, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 838, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 838, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair