Bill Text: HI SB242 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 242 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Constitutional Amendment; Electronic Copy; 48-hour Availability; Third or Final Reading (ConAm)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-17 - Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. [SB242 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-SB242-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	242
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Proposing an amendment to article III, Section 15, of the hawaii STATE constitution to Allow electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading IN FULFILLMENT OF THE FORTY-EIGHT HOUR AVAILABILITY REQUIREMENT.

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

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to article III, section 15, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to allow electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading.

SECTION 2. Article III, section 15, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"PASSAGE OF BILLS

Section 15. No bill shall become law unless it shall pass three readings in each house on separate days. No bill shall pass third or final reading in either house unless printed or electronic copies of the bill in the form to be passed shall have been made available to the members of that house for at least forty-eight hours.

Every bill when passed by the house in which it originated, or in which amendments thereto shall have originated, shall immediately be certified by the presiding officer and clerk and sent to the other house for consideration.

Any bill pending at the final adjournment of a regular session in an odd-numbered year shall carry over with the same status to the next regular session. Before the carried-over bill is enacted, it shall pass at least one reading in the house in which the bill originated."

SECTION 3. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:

"Shall an electronic copy, as an alternative to a printed copy, of a bill be made available to members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of the forty-eight hour availability requirement?"

SECTION 4. New constitutional material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Constitutional Amendment; Electronic Copy; 48-hour Availability; Third or Final Reading

Description:

Allows electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of the 48-hour availability requirement.

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