STAND. COM. REP. NO. 959

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 838

       H.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 838, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to:

     (1)  Fund five full-time temporary positions in the Office of Elections to provide support to the Reapportionment Commission; and

     (2)  Provide funds for the functions of the Reapportionment Commission, Office of Elections, and the Elections Commission in regards to reapportionment,

to allow the Reapportionment Commission to complete its reapportionment plan.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections.

     Your Committee finds that reapportionment occurs every ten years after the preceding year's national census.  The next reapportionment will take place during parts of fiscal years 2011 and 2012.  Your Committee finds that additional funds are needed to allow the Reapportionment Commission to complete the scope of its work.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 838, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair