STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3109

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2736

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2736, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BALLOTS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that Hawaiian language ballots be made available in each election upon voter request.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Kamehameha Schools and six individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Elections, Aha Punana Leo, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure will promote the Hawaiian language by establishing its use in an important part of many Hawaii residents' lives.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2736, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2736, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Judiciary and Labor,

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

 

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair