STAND. COM. REP. NO. 534________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1051
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1051 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR
     COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide an emergency
appropriation for funds to pay court appointed counsel.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that when the Office of the Public
Defender is unable to represent an individual due to a conflict
of interests or if required in the interest of justice, the
courts may appoint private counsel to represent the individual.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

     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. 1051, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
1051, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.


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



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair