STAND. COM. REP. 648

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1255

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1255 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the administration of elections by appropriating funds for the Office of Elections (OE) to meet the five percent matching fund requirement of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.

OE, The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and Hawaii Pro Democracy Initiative submitted testimony 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. 1255 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair