Bill Text: HI HB300 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State Constitution; County Charters; Information on Amendments
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-12 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 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). [HB300 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB300-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 327
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 300
H.D. 1
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. 300 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INFORMED VOTING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) To publish a ballot pamphlet that contains a "plain language" description of any proposed amendments to be prepared by the Legislature, or county clerk or the county clerk's designee, as applicable; and
(2) To publish a website that incorporates the information contained in the ballot pamphlet, and other related information, and allows for public discussion of the amendments.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring the Legislative Reference Bureau, instead of the Legislature, to prepare summaries for proposed amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution;
(2) Requiring that any summaries prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau, or the county clerk or the county clerk's designee, as applicable, be submitted to the Office of Elections no later than ninety days prior to the general election;
(3) Narrowing the scope of the required features of the website to be maintained by the Office of Elections; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 300, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 300, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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