STAND. COM. REP. NO.  239-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2343

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2343 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 amend the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to require the public disclosure of the names of judicial nominees.

 

     The League of Women Voters testified in support of this measure.  One concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing references to the "judicial selection committee" to "judicial selection commission"; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     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. 2343, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2343, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair