STAND. COM. REP. NO.  954

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 886

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 886 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO INCREASE THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR STATE JUSTICES AND JUDGES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for state judges and justices from seventy to eighty years of age.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, the League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and one concerned citizen submitted testimony in support of the measure.  The Office of the Public Defender and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu submitted comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 886 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,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair