STAND. COM. REP. NO. 634-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1925
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1925 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase from one hundred
twenty days to one hundred fifty days the time within which a new
election must be held if an election is invalidated by the court.

     The State Office of Elections, the Elections Office of the
City Clerk of the City and County of Honolulu, Common Cause
Hawaii, and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in
support of the measure.

     Your Committee finds that it is difficult for the agencies
involved to conduct a new election in the time allotted under
existing law.  This measure would allow sufficient time for the
State and counties to conduct new elections.

     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. 1925 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading 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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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair