Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2565 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Office of Elections (OE) to provide printed and electronic forms of voter registration, voter information, and educational materials for voters in the Korean language.

OE and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

OE has indicated that it currently provides election materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino (Ilocano), as determined by the U.S. Department of Justice using population data from the 2000 census and pursuant to the federal Voting Rights Act.

Your Committee finds that other sizable populations of individuals, including Samoans, Laotians, and Vietnamese, may also benefit from having election materials translated into their respective languages. Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 2565, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2565, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.