Report Title:

Elections; Voting Age; State Elections; Lowered to Seventeen; Constitutional Amendment

Description:

Proposes an amendment to Article II, section 1 of the Hawaii State Constitution to lower the voting age in state elections to seventeen.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2625

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

proposing an amendment to article ii, section 1, of the hawaii constitution, to change the required minimum voting age to seventeen.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to Article II, section 1, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to reduce the minimum voting age from eighteen years old to seventeen years old.

SECTION 2. Article II, section 1, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"Section 1. Every citizen of the United States who shall have attained the age of [eighteen] seventeen years, have been a resident of this State not less than one year next preceding the election and be a voter registered as provided by law, shall be qualified to vote in any state or local election."

SECTION 3. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:

"Shall the minimum voting age for state elections be reduced from eighteen years of age to seventeen years of age?"

SECTION 4. Constitutional and statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New constitutional and statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon compliance with Article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

INTRODUCED BY:

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