STAND. COM. REP. NO. 667-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 3254

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 3254 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OATHS OF OFFICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to amend the law to conform to constitutional amendments made in 1992, that limited the public employees who are required to take an oath of office and by repealing provisions that require public employees who are not a part of the constitutionally-required class, to take a loyalty oath.

The Office of the Ombudsman supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Reinstating the provision in which the certificate of the Chief Deputy Commissioner's appointment shall be filed in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor;

(2) Deleting the provisions that repealed the oath of office for notaries public and the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 3254, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3254, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair