STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1037

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 858

      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. 858, S.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 that members of boards and commissions 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.

The Sierra Club, Hawai‘i Chapter testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Removing language that would have allowed a member of a board or commission whose reappointment failed to receive the consent of the Senate to continue in the member's position until the Senate adjourns sine die, and clarifying that such a member shall not continue in office as a holdover member; and

     (2)  Making it effective upon 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. 858, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 858, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair