STAND. COM. REP. NO.  300

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1189

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1189 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 appropriate $120,000 in each year of the 2011-2013 fiscal biennium for the staffing and operations of the Judicial Selection Commission (Commission).

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

     This bill was submitted for introduction by the Commission pursuant to Article VI, Section 4, of the Hawaii State Constitution, which provides that the Commission "shall be attached to the judiciary branch of the state government for purposes of administration."

     Your Committee notes that the Judiciary proposed a different amount for the Commission in H.B. No. 300, the Judiciary Appropriations Act of 2011.  Your Committee recommends that the amount requested by the Commission in this measure be adopted for consideration.

     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. 1189 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair