STAND. COM. REP. NO.  707-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 3013

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 3013 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to add a new section to Chapter 14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, allowing member states to determine the winner of a presidential election by "national popular vote."

 

     The Center for Voting and Democracy supported this bill.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Codifying the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" within Chapter 14, HRS; and

 

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

 

     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. 3013, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3013, 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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TOMMY WATERS, Chair