STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2620

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3177
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 3177, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUDGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Judiciary, in
cooperation with the Judicial Selection Commission, the Judicial
Salary Commission, and the Hawaii State Bar Association, to
conduct a study to determine the most appropriate method by which
a system of higher judicial pay based on merit may be
implemented.

     The bill also requires the Judiciary to submit a report of
its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than
twenty days prior to the convening of the 2001 regular session.

     Your Committee finds that, as part of the study, the
Judiciary is to recommend a timetable for implementation of merit
pay and to develop recommendations for how judicial evaluations
should be presented to individual judges and used to help
individual judges address weaknesses when necessary. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3177, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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