Report Title:

Voter Registration

Description:

Changes the age from which persons may pre-register to vote from seventeen to sixteen years of age.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

757

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to elections.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 11-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Every person who has reached the age of eighteen years or who is [seventeen] sixteen years of age and will be eighteen years of age by the date of the next election, and is otherwise qualified to register may do so for that election. The person shall then be listed upon the appropriate county general register and precinct list. No person shall register or vote in any other precinct than that in which the person resides except as provided in section 11-21."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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