STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1518

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1010

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1010, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to permit deputy attorneys general other than the Attorney General's first deputy, to provide pro bono legal services at the discretion of the Attorney General.

 

     The Hawaii Access to Justice Commission supported this measure.  The Hawaii State Ethics Commission and Department of the Attorney General provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that no deputy attorney general shall be required to provide pro bono legal services.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1010, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1010, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair