Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 1430 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require legislative candidates to be qualified voters in the district prior to filing nomination papers for the primary election except for incumbents when displaced by reapportionment.

The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that a person can run for office in any district without any residency requirements. However, your Committee believes that requiring a person to live in the district from the day a person files for candidacy would enhance the potential candidate's understanding of the community and better serve the district.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1430 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.