CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.45-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2843
S.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2843, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this bill is to update the election process by:
(1) Requiring all special elections, except for special primary, special general, and special non-partisan elections, to be conducted by mail only;
(2) Instituting a mandatory recount for very close elections;
(3) Mandating separate ballots based on party; and
(4) Ensuring that a person holding public office at the time of a felony conviction forfeits that office as of the time of the conviction, not the sentence.
Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:
(1) Requiring the establishment of polling places in the county clerk's office and allowing their establishment elsewhere;
(2) Limiting the time for mandatory recounts to seven days after the election, rather than 15 days;
(3) Deleting the provision relating to forfeiture of a public office after a felony conviction;
(4) Inserting a provision to clarify that a person holding public office forfeits that office at the time of a conviction of election fraud; and
(5) Making numerous technical, nonsubtantive amendments to make the provision on contesting elections clearer and more consistent and to include reference to runoff elections and automatic recounts necessitated by small vote differences.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2843, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2843, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
|
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
|
____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair |
____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Co-Chair |
|
|
____________________________ BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair |
____________________________ SCOTT K. SAIKI, Co-Chair |
|
|
____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Co-Chair |
||
|
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair |