STAND. COM. REP. NO.  870-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2019

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2019, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish instant runoff voting procedures for any federal, state, or county election not held on the date of a regularly scheduled primary or general election.

 

     Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Elections and the Office of the City Clerk for the City and County of Honolulu provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2019, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2019, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair