STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1293

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1462
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1462, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make the Office of Elections
and the elections appointment panel permanent, and to require the
panel to create a review program to establish standards for and
evaluate the operation of elections and the performance of the
chief election officer.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Office of Elections
and the League of Women Voters.

     Your Committee finds that extending the sunset date of Act
27, Session Laws of Hawaii 1995 from June 30, 1999 to June 30,
2001, will accord the elections panel additional time to discuss
and recommend substantive changes to Section 11-2.5, Hawaii
Revised Statutes such as making the Office of Elections a
separate and independent state department.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its
substance and incorporating provisions to::

     1)Extend the sunset date for Act 27, Special Session Laws of
Hawaii, 1995 to June 30, 2001; and

 
 
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     2)Change the effective date to June 29, 1999.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1462, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1462, 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 &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair