STAND. COM. REP. NO.  57

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 179

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 179 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERMANENT ABSENTEE BALLOTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to specify that the forwarding address for absentee ballots to be permanently mailed shall be the mailing address contained in the voter's registration record.

 

     The Office of Elections; Office of the County Clerk, County of Kauai; Office of the County Clerk, County of Maui; and The League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Office of the City Clerk, City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this measure and provided comments.  An individual testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that the forwarding address for absentee ballots to be permanently mailed shall be the in-state mailing address contained in the voter's registration record.

 

     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 H.B. No. 179, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 179, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair