Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 599 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the administrative placement of the boards of registration from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS).

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections.

There is a three member Board of Registration in each county for the purpose of hearing voter registration appeals. Act 117, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, transferred the Office of Elections from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to DAGS but inadvertently left attached the boards of registration to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. This measure rectifies that oversight.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 599 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.