Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2298 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to conform the filing date for nomination papers for the board of trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to the filing date for other elections.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections.

Your Committee finds that staff resources can be used more efficiently if the Office of Elections and county clerks administer one rather than two candidate filing procedures within each general election cycle.

Your Committee has amended this bill:

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. 2298, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2298, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.