STAND. COM. REP. NO.78

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1012

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 1012 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE SENATE OR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to propose an amendment to the Hawaii Constitution to provide that candidates for state legislative office must be qualified voters in the district they seek to represent prior to filing nomination papers for the primary election.

The Office of Elections, the League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds this bill would ensure that candidates are knowledgeable, concerned, and connected by their residency to the community they wish to serve.

Your Committee further finds that this bill may raise constitutional issues, which the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs may be better able to address.

 

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1012 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

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NATHAN SUZUKI, Chair