STAND. COM. REP. NO. 947

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 162
                                     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. 162 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the scope of the
subpoena powers of state and county legislative bodies by
removing references to the obsolete loyalty oath of repealed
Chapter 85, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the Maui
County Council.

     Your Committee finds that the proposed amendments preserve
the integrity of state and county legislative bodies in the State
of Hawaii.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making a technical,
nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of correcting a drafting
error.

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


 
 
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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