STAND. COM. REP. NO.  774-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2401

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2401, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE IV, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ADD A RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBERS APPOINTED TO THE REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to propose an amendment to Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to require a residency requirement for members appointed to the Reapportionment Commission, such that the officials designated as selecting authorities must each select two persons from different counties, or basic island units.  

 

     Common Cause Hawaii and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii commented on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2401, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2401, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair