HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1306
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to voting.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 11-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§11-11  Registration.  A person who registers as required by law shall be entitled to vote at any election provided that the person shall have attained the age of [eighteen] sixteen at the time of that election.  The county clerk shall be responsible for voter registration in the respective counties and the keeping of the general register and precinct lists within the county."

     SECTION 2.  Section 11-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§11-12  Age; place of registering.  (a)  Every person who has reached the age of [eighteen] sixteen years or who is [seventeen] fifteen years of age and will be [eighteen] sixteen 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.

     (b)  A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least [sixteen] fourteen years of age but will not be [eighteen] sixteen years of age by the date of the next election may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching age [eighteen.] sixteen."

     SECTION 3.  Section 11-15.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§11-15.5[]]  Duties of all state agencies; voter registration.  Each state agency that deals with the public shall make available to each member of the public [eighteen] sixteen years of age or older an application in the form of an affidavit for voter registration pursuant to section 11-15.  The application shall be available by mail or in person depending on the manner in which the agency's services are requested by the person.  The form of the application may be identical to that described and found in public telephone directories."

     SECTION 4.  Section 13D-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Every person who registers as required by law shall be entitled to vote at any election of board members provided that the person shall have attained the age of [eighteen] sixteen years at the time of the election.

     (b)  No person shall be eligible to register as a voter for the election of board members unless the person meets the following qualifications:

     (1)  The person has attained the age of [eighteen] sixteen years or will have attained such age within one year of the date of the next election of board members; and

     (2)  The person is otherwise qualified to register to vote in the State."

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval and upon ratification of a constitutional amendment amending the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Elections; Voting Age

 

Description:

Makes various statutory amendments to implement a constitutional amendment that lowers the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to 16 years of age.

 

 

 

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