STAND. COM. REP. NO.  867-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1651

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1651, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CLASS C FELONIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a person applying for late registration or registration at an absentee polling place to acknowledge that providing false information on the signed affidavit is a Class C felony.

The Office of Elections, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1651, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1651, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair