STAND. COM. REP. NO. 729

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1464
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1464 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PRIMARY ELECTION DATE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the period of time
between the primary and the general elections.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Office of Elections and Common Cause Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that it is necessary to extend the time
period between the date of the primary election and the general
election in order to comply with absentee ballot guidelines and
allow sufficient time for election challenges.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the date of
the primary election to the fourth Saturday in August in every
even numbered year.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1464, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
1464, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.


 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair