Bill Text: HI HB1754 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Elections; Absentee Ballots; Unique Ballots; Office of Elections Package

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-05-11 - (S) Act 100, 5/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1202). [HB1754 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1754-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  11-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1754

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1754 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to permit, in lieu of the operation of polling places, the mailing of absentee ballots to all registered voters in certain small population pockets covered by their own unique ballot type.

 

     The Office of Elections, Elections Division of the Office of the County Clerk of Kauai County, Office of the County Clerk of Maui County, Office of the City Clerk of the City and County of Honolulu, League of Women Voters, and Americans for Democratic Action supported this bill. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 7, 2059, to facilitate further discussion of the matter; and

    

     (2)  Making 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. 1754, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1754, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair