STAND. COM. REP. NO.  158-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2694

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, 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 of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure ensures a bipartisan appointment process for the selection of members of the Reapportionment Commission.

     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 H.B. No. 2694 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair