Bill Text: HI HCR48 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Conduct A Study Of The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Implementing Term Limits For Members Of The Legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-04 - Referred to LMG, FIN, referral sheet 19 [HCR48 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HCR48-Introduced.html
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.C.R. NO. |
48 |
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
requesting the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study of the benefits and drawbacks of implementing term limits for members of the legislature.
WHEREAS, when the
United States Supreme Court decided in Buckley
v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), that certain campaign spending limits would
not have to be observed, the ability of nonincumbents to challenge elected
officials was substantially impaired; and
WHEREAS, in 1974,
the year of the only state election having mandatory spending limits,
twenty-two new members were elected to the House of Representatives and eight
new members were elected to the Senate; and
WHEREAS, forty-three percent of the representatives and thirty-two percent of the senators elected in Hawaii in 1974 were new to the Legislature; and
WHEREAS, fifteen states have imposed term limits on their state legislators and thirty-six states have imposed term limits on their governors; and
WHEREAS, twenty-three states have imposed term limits on the members of their delegations to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate; and
WHEREAS, the expenses for nonincumbents seeking election to the Legislature and the small chance of winning leads to a reduction in the number of seriously contested races, which results in voter apathy and the undermining of the entire foundation and process of representative democracy; now, therefore,
BE IT
RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-first Legislature of the
State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2021, the Senate concurring, that the
Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to conduct a study of the benefits
and drawbacks of implementing term limits for members of the Legislature; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to submit a report of the Bureau's findings to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2022; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau.
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Legislator Term Limits; Legislative Reference Bureau Study