THE SENATE

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2021

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Senator Karl Rhoads, Chair

Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

TIME:

9:10 AM

PLACE:

Via Videoconference

 

THE STATE CAPITOL IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC DURING THE ONGOING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

 

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DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

SB 548

      Status & Testimony

 

 

 

RELATING TO ELECTIONS BY MAIL.

Makes amendments to elections laws to clarify the administration of elections by mail.  Renames districts as precincts.  Extends voter registration deadlines.  Requires additional voter service centers on election day.  Repeals election days as designated state holidays.

 

JDC

SB 550

      Status & Testimony

 

 

 

 

RELATING TO VOTING.

Allows an individual who is seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age on or before the next state or local general election to register and vote at the state or local primary election immediately preceding that state or local general election.  Takes effect upon ratification of an appropriate constitutional amendment.

 

JDC

SB 551

      Status & Testimony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 1, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO CHANGE THE AGE QUALIFICATION FOR VOTING IN STATE OR LOCAL ELECTIONS.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow individuals who are seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age on or before the next state or local general election to vote at the state or local primary election immediately preceding the state or local general election by which the citizen will attain the age of eighteen.

 

JDC

SB 566

      Status & Testimony

 

 

RELATING TO HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS.

Increases the homestead exemption for all persons up to $2,000,000 and requires that the real property be the principal residence.

 

JDC

SB 612

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CRITICAL ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Establishes the offense of criminal trespass on critical electrical infrastructure.

 

JDC

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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