STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3381

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1472

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1472, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WITHDRAWAL OF PETITION SIGNATURES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the information necessary for a voter to withdraw their signature from a petition under election laws.

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

Your Committee finds that this measure will standardize the requirements for a signatory to remove their name from a petition to match the withdrawal requirements of a signatory to a nomination paper.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1472, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1472, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair