Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 754 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow an election other than a regularly scheduled primary or general election to be conducted by mail.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections, the Office of the City Clerk, The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and a concerned citizen.

Your Committee endorses mail-in voting as a cost-effective means to improve voter participation.

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 H.B. No. 754 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.