STAND. COM. REP. NO 273

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1298

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1298 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate unspecified funds to the Office of Elections, Senate, and House of Representatives for duties necessary to enable registered voters to vote at the 2016 general election on state constitutional amendments proposed by the Legislature during the Regular Session of 2015 and 2016.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections.

     Your Committee finds that this measure facilitates the electorate to vote on proposed amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1298, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1298, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair