HI SB624 | 2016 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-12-17 - Carried over to 2016 Regular Session.
Pending: Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-12-17 - Carried over to 2016 Regular Session.
Pending: Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Requires the legislature to follow fundamental principles of the sunshine law, including: conducting public hearings on proposed legislative rules; requiring a majority vote to suspend legislative rules; giving a seventy-two hour public notice for public hearings; requiring proposed amendments on a bill to be germane to the text to be amended; requiring correspondence on measures to be considered testimony; and requiring the posting, on the order of the day, of items to be voted on during floor sessions by a house, including votes to agree to amendments made by the other house.
Title
Sunshine Law; Legislative Requirements
Sponsors
Sen. Les Ihara [D] | Sen. Donovan Cruz [D] | Sen. Gil Riviere [D] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2015-12-17 | Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. | |
2015-01-26 | Senate | Referred to JDL. |
2015-01-26 | Senate | Passed First Reading. |
2015-01-23 | Senate | Introduced. |
Hawaii State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=624&year=2016 |
Text | http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/SB624_.HTM |