STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1726

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 1030

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1030, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes carrying any unconcealed firearm or dangerous instrument at or within two hundred feet of a voter service center, place of deposit, or polling place.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Pride at Work - Hawaiʻi; League of Women Voters of Hawaii; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; and nine individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Hawaii Patriot Republicans and numerous individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure safeguards the electoral process for all voters by enhancing protections against election fraud and voter intimidation, particularly by prohibiting the unconcealed carry of dangerous instruments near voting sites.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 S.B. No. 1030, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1030, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, 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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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair