STAND. COM. REP. NO.  119

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 413

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 413 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the number of judges in the Circuit Court of the Fifth Circuit from two to three.

 

     The Judiciary testified in support of the intent of this measure, stating that there is a need in the Fifth Circuit for an additional district court judge; an additional circuit court judge is not needed at this time.   

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by increasing the count of district court judges from two to three for the Fifth Circuit. 

 

     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. 413, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 413, 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair