STAND. COM. REP. NO.  447-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2297

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2297 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide better services for Hawaii's residents at the county level by appropriating funds to establish a Blue Ribbon Committee to reorganize the City and County of Honolulu into two counties.

 

     The Office of the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this bill.  A concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by adding a provision allowing the Blue Ribbon Committee, at its discretion, to consider separation of the City and County of Honolulu into three or more counties, provided that the Blue Ribbon Committee uses the same criteria and develops a similar implementation plan as specified in the bill for separation into two counties.

 

     Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 2297, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2297, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair