Bill Text: HI HB2707 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 2707

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposing An Amendment To Article Iii, Section 12 Of The Hawaii Constitution To Require The Chair Of A Committee Of The Legislature To Set For Public Hearing Every Bill Assigned To The Committee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-26 - Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 3 [HB2707 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2707-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2707
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE iii, SECTION 12 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE THE CHAIR OF A COMMITTEE of the Legislature TO SET for public hearing EVERY BILL ASSIGNED TO THE COMMITTEE.

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

SECTION 1. Article III, section 12, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"ORGANIZATION; DISCIPLINE; RULES; PROCEDURE

Section 12. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members and shall have, for misconduct, disorderly behavior or neglect of duty of any member, power to punish such member by censure or, upon a two-thirds vote of all the members to which such house is entitled, by suspension or expulsion of such member. Each house shall choose its own officers, determine the rules of its proceedings and keep a journal. The ayes and noes of the members on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of the members present, be entered upon the journal.

Twenty days after a bill has been referred to a committee in either house, the bill may be recalled from such committee by the affirmative vote of one-third of the members to which such house is entitled.

The chair of a committee shall set for public hearing every bill assigned to the committee.

Every meeting of a committee in either house or of a committee comprised of a member or members from both houses held for the purpose of making decision on matters referred to the committee shall be open to the public.

By rule of its proceedings, applicable to both houses, each house shall provide for the date by which all bills to be considered in a regular session shall be introduced."

SECTION 2. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:

"Shall the Constitution of the State of Hawaii be amended to require the chair of a committee to set for public hearing every bill assigned to the committee?"

SECTION 3. New constitutional material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Legislature; Committee; Public Hearing; Constitutional Amendment

Description:

Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require the chair of a committee of the Legislature to set for public hearing every bill assigned to the committee.

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