STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3415

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1880

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1880 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to reschedule the post-election assembly of presidential electors to the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December next following their election.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections.

Your Committee finds that Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, which changed the date of the Electoral College by one day from the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December to the first Tuesday. This measure will conform existing state law to the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 regarding the date of the convening of the Electoral College.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1880, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair