STAND. COM. REP. NO.  863-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2694

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2694 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE IV, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ADDRESS THE SELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure fair participation of all political parties on the Reapportionment Commission by providing that if there are no members belonging to the minority party or parties in a house of the Legislature, the members belonging to the same minority party or parties in the other house of the Legislature shall nominate persons to serve on the Commission.

The League of Women Voters Hawaii supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2694, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2694, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair