Bill Text: HI HB2155 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Judicial Selection Commission; Nominees; Judges; Justices; Disclosure

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-23 - (H) Referred to JUD, referral sheet 6 [HB2155 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2155-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2155
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to judicial Nominees.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 601, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§601-    Justices and judges; nominees; public disclosure.  The judicial selection commission shall publicly disclose the commission's list of nominees for any judicial office concurrent with the submission of the list to the governor or the chief justice of the supreme court."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Judicial Selection Commission; Nominees; Judges; Justices; Disclosure

 

Description:

Requires the judicial selection commission to release the commission's list of judicial nominees at the time it submits the list to the governor or chief justice.

 

 

 

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