STAND. COM. REP. NO.  322-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1797

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1797, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOTING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to encourage voting among young adults by:

(1)  Requiring the Department of Education to provide high school seniors with voter registration information prior to graduation and authorizing the Department to assist students with registration; and

(2)  Requiring the Department of Human Services to provide young adults with information on voter registration and authorizing the Department to help those young adults with registration.

The Department of Education, Office of Elections, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Human Services supported the intent of the bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the Department of Human Services will be required to provide young adults in the Young Adult Voluntary Foster Care Program with voter registration information and allow the Department to assist them with voter registration.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1797, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1797, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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MELE CARROLL, Chair