STAND. COM. REP. NO.379-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1810

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1810, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to propose an amendment to Article III, section 16, of the Hawaii Constitution, to repeal the Governor's power to veto specific items in a bill appropriating funds for a specific purpose, except for appropriations to the Judiciary and Legislature.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Member from the 40th Representative District and Common Cause Hawaii. The Department of Budget and Finance testified in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee concurs that allowing the Governor the power to repeal specific provisions within a bill is overexpansive and a potentially abusive encroachment on the integrity and legitimacy of the Legislature as a co-equal partner in our government.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1810, H.D. 1, 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 and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair