STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2955

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2181

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2181 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VACANCIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the deadline to file nomination papers associated with the filing of a vacancy in the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections; Office of the County Clerk, County of Maui; Office of the County Clerk, County of Kauai; and Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committees find that the intent of this measure is to ensure compliance with the provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, P.L. 111-84, mandating the mailing of absentee ballots to uniformed and overseas voters no later than forty-five days prior to an election.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2181, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair