Bill Text: HI HB746 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Elections Observer Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-12 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Belatti, Cachola, Coffman, Takai excused (4). [HB746 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB746-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  345

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 746

 

 

 

 

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. 746 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTION OBSERVERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure the integrity and security of Hawaii's elections.  Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Specifies the purposes of the Elections Observer Program established under the Election Review Program; and

 

     (2)  Requires the Chief Election Officer to implement and maintain the Elections Observer Program.

 

     The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii supported this measure.  The Office of Elections and Office of the County Clerk of the County of Kauai offered 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. 746 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair