Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require senatorial or representative candidates to be qualified voters in the district prior to filing primary election nomination papers except in the case of an incumbent senator or representative when displaced by reapportionment.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure from the Office of Elections, the League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and Common Cause Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that a person can run for office in any district and only has to move into the district on the day of the general election. A district would be better served by a legislator who has lived in the area for an extended period of time.

Your Committee believes that requiring a person to live in the district from the day the person files for candidacy would enhance the potential candidate's understanding of the community the potential candidate hopes to serve.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary 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 placed on the calendar for Third Reading.