STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2191

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 187

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 187, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISTRICT COURT JUDGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and fund one additional district court judge in the First Circuit and one additional district court judge in the Second Circuit.

The Judiciary, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui, and Maui County Bar Association testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making the appropriation and position amounts unspecified; 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 S.B. No. 187, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 187, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair