Bill Text: HI SB741 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Elections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-24 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JHA with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ohno excused (1). [SB741 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB741-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ELECTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 14-28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§14-28 Convening and voting for
president and vice president; party vote[.]; invalid vote. (a)
The electors, when convened, if both candidates are alive, shall vote by
ballot for that person for president and that person for vice president of the
United States, whose names appeared on the presidential general election
ballot and, who are, respectively, the candidates of the political party or
group which they represent, one of whom, at least, is not an inhabitant of this
State.
(b) If an elector fails to vote for the
presidential and vice presidential candidate pursuant to subsection (a), the
elector's vote shall be invalidated and an alternate elector selected pursuant
to section 14-21 shall vote for the candidates whose names appeared on the
presidential general election ballot and who are of the political party or
group that the alternate elector represents. If an alternate elector fails to vote for the
candidates whose names appeared on the presidential general election ballot and
who are of the political party or group that the alternate elector represents, the
alternate elector's vote shall be invalidated. This subsection shall not apply if the
presidential candidate of the political party or group that the elector represents
has released the elector without condition, died, or become mentally disabled.
(c) As used in this section, "mentally disabled"
means an individual:
(1) With a mental impairment
that substantially limits one or more major life activities of the individual;
(2) With no ability
to make decisions for the individual's self; or
(3) With a syndrome of clinically significant psychological, biological, or behavioral abnormalities that results in personal distress or suffering, impairment of capacity for functioning, or both."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2112.
Report Title:
Faithless Electors; Presidential Elections; Invalid Vote
Description:
Requires an elector to vote for the candidates whose names appeared on the presidential general election ballot and who are of the political party or group they represent. Invalidates an elector's vote for failure to vote accordingly and requires an alternate to vote in place of the original elector. Invalidates an alternate elector's vote for failure to vote accordingly. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
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