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.  767-12

 

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1754, H.D. 1, 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 that require a unique ballot type.

 

     The Office of Elections; Office of the County Clerk of the County of Maui; Office of the County Clerk of the County of Kauai; and League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     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. 1754, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair