STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1789

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 1956

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1956 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the voting process for presidential elections by adopting an interstate compact that requires member states to determine the winner of a presidential election by popular vote.

     The Center for Voting and Democracy and National Popular Vote! supported this bill.  Several concerned individuals opposed this bill.

     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 S.B. No. 1956 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair