STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1316

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 286

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 286, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure fair and accurate representation in the State Legislature by clarifying the reapportionment population basis.  Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Requires reapportionment to be based in part on population data of the total number of permanent residents in the State; and

     (2)  Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment purposes as any individual counted as a usual resident in the last preceding United States census within the State of Hawaii.  

The Hawaii State Reapportionment Commission, Oahu Apportionment Advisory Council; Military Officers Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Chapter; Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, A Law Corporation; National Association for Uniformed Services, Hawaii Chapter (HI-1); and two concerned individuals supported this measure.  Two concerned individuals opposed this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General expressed strong concerns on this measure and offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

     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 S.B. No. 286, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 286, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair