Bill Text: HI SCR29 | 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 (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-04-01 - Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 32 [SCR29 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-SCR29-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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SENATE 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 which observed 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, thirty-five states have imposed term limits on their governor, state legislators, or both; and
WHEREAS, thirty-three states have imposed term limits on the members of their delegations to the United States House of Representatives and 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 Senate of the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii,
Regular Session of 2021, the House of Representatives 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;
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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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Requests the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study of the benefits and drawbacks of implementing term limits for members of the Legislature
