STAND. COM. REP. NO. 799-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1471

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1471 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POLITICAL PARTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend:

(1) The required information for petitions for qualification as a political party; and

(2) The deadlines for political parties to file their rules and submit a list of the party officers to election officials.

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

Your Committee finds that this measure will make it easier for qualified political parties to keep track of and facilitate compliance with elections laws by aligning the deadlines for the submission of political party rules and officers with the deadline for a petition for qualification as a political party. This measure also amends the date of birth information that a signatory to a political party petition must provide to match the requirements of a signatory to a nomination paper.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1471 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 & Hawaiian Affairs,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair