STAND. COM. REP. NO.  581-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 420

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 420, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF THE NAMES OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to propose an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to require the Judicial Selection Commission to disclose the list of judicial nominees for a vacancy in the office of the chief justice, supreme court, intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, or district courts to the public at the same time with the presentation of each list to the Governor or Chief Justice.

The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General provided comments on this measure.

     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. 420, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair