Bill Text: HI HB32 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 32 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Elections; Ballot; Arrangement of Names

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 761). [HB32 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB32-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 43

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2013

RE: H.B. No. 32

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 32 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure fairness in the election process by requiring the Chief Election Officer to establish a procedure to select a letter of the alphabet by lot and to arrange candidate names on ballots in alphabetical order beginning with the letter chosen by lot.

The Office of Elections, Office of the County Clerk of the County of Kauai, and Office of the County Clerk of the County of Maui provided comments on this measure.

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. 32 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair