Bill Text: HI SB2052 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 2052 (Prior Session Legislation)

HI State Legislature page for SB2052

Bill Title: Elections; Absentee Ballots; Unique Ballots

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima, Pine, Tokioka excused (5). [SB2052 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2052-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1145-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2012

RE: S.B. No. 2052

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2052, S.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 the mailing of absentee ballots by the chief election officer or county clerk to all registered voters residing in areas of less than 500 voters in lieu of operating polling places for voters in those areas.

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

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Making the bill effective upon its approval; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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 S.B. No. 2052, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2052, S.D. 1, 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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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair