Bill Text: HI SB259 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Jury Duty; Exemptions; Age 75

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB259 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB259-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 475

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 259

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 259 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JURY DUTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow persons seventy-five years of age or older to claim exemption from jury duty, beginning January 1, 2010.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the AARP.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Existing law allows persons eighty years old or older to claim an exemption from jury duty.  Your Committee finds that seventy-five years of age is an appropriate threshold age to provide a person called for jury duty with the discretion to claim an exemption or to choose to serve on a jury.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 259 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair