Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 466, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate matching funds to make the State eligible to receive federal funding under the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Elections, the League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and Safe Vote Hawaii.

This measure appropriates funds to meet the five per cent matching fund requirement for the State to be eligible to receive federal funding under the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Your Committee finds that these federal funds can be used for various purposes including improving the administration of elections, replacing punch card and lever machines, and providing voter education.

Your Committee has amended this measure by;

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 466, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 466, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.