Bill Text: HI SB2206 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Judges; Mandatory Retirement Age; Constitutional Amendment

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-13 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Hanohano voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Awana, Carroll, Saiki, Thielen excused (4). [SB2206 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2206-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  976-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2206

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 2206 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO INCREASE THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR STATE JUSTICES AND JUDGES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to eighty years.

 

     The League of Women Voters supported this measure.  A concerned citizen opposed this bill.  The Office of the Public Defender submitted comments.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2206 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair