STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1564

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 858

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 858, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the Legislature's intent that no person whose reappointment to a second consecutive term fails to receive the consent of the Senate shall continue in office as a holdover member of a board or commission.

The Department of the Attorney General provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee notes that the subject of this measure is state boards and commissions.  Accordingly, your Committee requests that if this measure is considered in conference, the Conference Committee examine the issue of promoting gender equity when the Governor appoints members to state boards and commissions.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that a person whose reappointment to a second consecutive term fails to receive the consent of the Senate may continue in office as a holdover member only until the Senate adjourns sine die.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 858, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 858, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair