Bill Text: HI SB2669 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Board of Trustees; Vacancies; Election

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-16 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Herkes, Kawakami, Oshiro, Tokioka excused (4). [SB2669 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2669-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1030-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2669

      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 Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2669, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACANCIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the schedule for filing candidate nomination papers to fill a vacancy on the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to ensure ballots are finalized early enough to be printed and mailed to uniformed and overseas voters no later than 45 days prior to the election as mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, P.L. 111-84.  This measure also makes a conforming amendment to lengthen the period when the Board of Trustees or the Governor may make an appointment to fill the vacancy.

 

     The Office of Elections, Election Division of the Office of the County Clerk of the County of Kauai, Office of the County Clerk of the County of Maui, the Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Sovereign Mokupuni Council o Oahu, Waianae Kai Homestead Community Association, Sovereign Mokupuni Council O Maui, and the Sovereign Mokupuni Council O Molokai supported the measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs offered comments on the measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to upon approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2669, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2669, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair