STAND. COM. REP. 653

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1277

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1277 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 16, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII, TO PROVIDE THE LEGISLATURE WITH THE POWER TO RECALL A BILL PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to propose an amendment to the State Constitution:

(1) Allowing bills under consideration for passage by the Governor to be recalled through the adoption of a Concurrent Resolution in the Legislature; and

(2) Providing that any bill recalled in this manner shall pass one additional reading in each house of the Legislature during the session in which it was recalled before being resubmitted to the Governor.

The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives submitted testimony in support of this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1277 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair