Bill Text: HI SB15 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Voting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-12-10 - Carried over to 2022 Regular Session. [SB15 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB15-Introduced.html
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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 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 state or local
election; provided that the person shall have attained the age of [eighteen]
sixteen at the time of that election.
A person who registers as required by law shall be entitled to vote at
any federal election; provided that the person shall have attained the age of eighteen
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 state or local 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 state
or local election may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall
be automatically registered upon reaching age [eighteen.] sixteen.
(c) Any person who registers pursuant to this section
shall not vote in any federal election unless the person has reached the age of
eighteen at the time of that election."
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 lowering the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
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Report Title:
Voting Age Decrease; State and Local Elections
Description:
Lowers the age of voting in state and local elections from eighteen to sixteen years of age. Lowers the age of preregistration.
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