STAND. COM. REP. NO.  326

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 878

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 878 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MILITARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to alleviate the burden of requiring citizen-soldiers who choose to run for elected office to file nomination papers and take their oaths in person by allowing members of the reserves or national guard called to active service to fulfill the requirements relating thereto by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested.

The Office of Veterans' Services and Advisory Board on Veterans' Services supported this measure.  The Department of Defense and the Office of Elections submitted comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 878 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair