Bill Text: HI HB290 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Judicial Selection Commission; Budget Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB290 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB290-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  146

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 290

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 290 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to satisfy state constitutional requirements that the Legislature provide operating expenses for the Judicial Selection Commission (Commission) through a separate budget.  This bill appropriates $100,000 to the Commission for each fiscal year of fiscal biennium 2009-2011.

 

     Your Committee finds that in the past, the appropriations for the Commission were included in the Judiciary's budget.

 

     The Commission, Department of the Attorney General, and The League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee defers to the Committee on Finance to determine the appropriate amount for this bill.  Therefore, your Committee has:

 

     (1)  Deleted the dollar amount of the appropriations in this bill to promote further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, 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. 290, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 290, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair