STAND. COM. REP. NO 666

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1022

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1022 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO REPEAL THE ONE-YEAR MINIMUM HAWAII RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT TO QUALIFY FOR APPOINTMENT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE V, SECTION 6, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to propose a constitutional amendment to repeal the one-year minimum Hawaii residency requirement to qualify for appointment as an officer of a department pursuant to article V, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Governor of the State of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the leaders of the State's principal departments should be selected from among the best and brightest candidates.  Removing the one-year minimum Hawaii residency requirement will provide greater flexibility to future administrations to recruit individuals with the best qualifications, including former Hawaii residents that wish to return to Hawaii to serve in state government.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by amending the question to be placed on the ballot to refer to "officers of a principal department" rather than "executive of a principal department".

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1022, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1022, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair