STAND. COM. REP. NO. 409-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 1055
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1055 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO ELECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee finds that the State's voter registration laws should conform to federal office election law which would require the State to issue a citizen an identification number for voter registration purposes if that person does not have a social security number. This change will enable and encourage those affected citizens to register.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the State to issue the applicant a unique voter registration identification number if the applicant does not have a driver's license, Hawaii state identification card number, or social security number; and to enroll the applicant by the unique identification number in the State's computerized voter registration records; and
(2) Making the measure effective on January 1, 2018.
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. 1055, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1055, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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