Bill Text: HI SB654 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Voter Registration; Election Day Registration
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB654 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB654-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 476
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 654
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2009
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 654 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOTING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to allow for election-day voter registration.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, and American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii. Comments were received from the Office of Election. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that election-day voter registration permits eligible voters to register and vote on primary and general election days. This enhances the participatory democracy process and promotes increased voter turnout.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 654 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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