STAND. COM. REP. NO.  68-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1797

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1797 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOTING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help ensure that all qualified Hawaii residents take advantage of their opportunity to vote by requiring:

 

     (1)  The Department of Education to provide seniors at every public high school with voter registration information prior to graduation; and

 

     (2)  The Department of Human Services to provide young adults in the Young Adult Voluntary Foster Care Program with information on voter registration.

 

     This measure also authorizes the Department of Human Services to assist young adults with voter registration.

 

     The Department of Education, Office of Elections, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and League of Women Voters of Hawaii supported this measure.  The Elections Division of the Kauai Office of the County Clerk provided comments.

 


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Department of Education to assist students with voter registration; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1797, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1797, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Human Services.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair