Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 599 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the Boards of Registration from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Department of Accounting and General Services for administrative purposes.

Your Committee finds that in 2003 the Office of Elections was transferred from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Department of Accounting and General Services. The Boards of Registration hear voter registration appeals of the precinct chairperson on Election Day or the county clerk prior to the election. Your Committee believes that the Boards of Registration were inadvertently left attached to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and that this bill corrects that oversight.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means 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 Third Reading.