STAND. COM. REP. 821
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 756
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 756, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to establish a provision for automatic recount of votes in close election races.
The Office of Elections, ACLU-Hawaii, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure. The League of Women Voters supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by requiring that in contests of recounts of close races, a complaint be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court:
(1) No later than 4:30 p.m. on the sixth day after completion of the recount in primary election contests; and
(2) No later than 4:30 p.m. on the twentieth day after completion of the recount in general or special election contests.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 756, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 756, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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