Hawaii Senate Bill 678 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-08 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Requires the legislature to follow fundamental principles of the sunshine law, including: requiring a majority vote to suspend legislative rules; requiring proposed amendments on a measure to be germane to the text to be amended; and requiring all floor votes to be printed on the order of the day before consideration. Specifies that correspondence received by the legislature or any of its committees on a measure is testimony on the measure and subject to disclosure as a public record. (SD1)

Relating To Legislative Provisions.

Sen. Les Ihara [D]

Sen. Donna Kim [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-08	Senate	Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.
2019-02-08	Senate	Reported from GVO (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 123) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC/WAM.
2019-01-31	Senate	The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) L. Thielen, Inouye, Kanuha, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Baker.
2019-01-28	Senate	The committee(s) on GVO has scheduled a public hearing on 01-31-19 2:45PM in conference room 225.
2019-01-24	Senate	Referred to GVO, JDC/WAM.
2019-01-22	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2019-01-18	Senate	Introduced.

SB678 (Carry Over) 2019-02-08 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=678&year=2019
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2019/bills/SB678_.HTM
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2019/bills/SB678_SD1_.HTM