HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	15
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to elections.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 15-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Immediately upon receipt of a request for absentee ballot within the time limit specified in section 15-4, the clerk shall examine the records to ascertain whether [or not] the voter is lawfully entitled to vote as requested.  [As soon as the printed official ballots are available,] If the clerk ascertains that the voter is lawfully entitled to vote as requested, no earlier than twenty-one days before the election, the clerk shall mail in a forwarding envelope, or deliver in person if the voter appears at the office of the clerk, an official ballot and other materials prescribed in section 15-6, except that an incapacitated voter may send a representative to obtain the voter's ballots pursuant to the rules [promulgated] adopted by the chief election officer[.  All requests received upon the last day specified in section 15-4 for receipt shall be mailed to the voter requesting the same as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than twenty-four hours after receipt thereof.]; provided that official ballots and other materials prescribed in section 15-6 shall be mailed or delivered:

(1) To uniform military and overseas voters pursuant to section 15D-9; and

(2) No later than twenty-four hours after receipt of the request for absentee ballot for requests received on the last day specified in section 15-4."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Absentee Ballot Delivery

Description:

Creates a statewide standard for the distribution of absentee ballots.

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