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:
(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.
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 |
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