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. 1011 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow elections officials to grant standing requests to vote by absentee ballot.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the City Clerk of the City and County of Honolulu, Life of the Land, the Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women, and the Hawaii Women's Coalition. The Office of Elections submitted testimony in support of the concept of permanent absentee voting.

Your Committee considers the convenience of permanent absentee voting a positive step toward increased 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. 1011 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.