STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2106

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2797

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2797 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO JUDGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to propose an amendment to the Hawaii Constitution to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from seventy years to eighty years.

Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that this measure should pass through this Committee to allow the voters to decide the appropriate retirement age for Hawaii's judges.

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 S.B. No. 2797 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair