Bill Text: HI HB353 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing An Amendment To Article Iii, Section 15, Of The Hawaii State Constitution To Enact A Supermajority Voting Requirement For Passage Of Legislation Proposing To Raise Or Create Taxes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-23 - Referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 2 [HB353 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2017-HB353-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	353
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

proposing an amendment to article III, section 15, of the hawaii state constitution to enact a supermajority voting requirement for passage of legislation proposing to raise or create taxes.

 

 

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 enact a two-thirds supermajority requirement for passage of legislation proposing to raise taxes or create new taxes.

     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 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.

     Passage of legislation proposing to increase the rates for any tax collected by the State or to enact a new tax to be collected by the State shall require a two-thirds vote of all members to which each house is entitled." 

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

     "Shall the Constitution be amended to include a two-thirds supermajority voting requirement for the legislature to pass laws that would raise taxes or create new taxes?" 

     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:	_____________________________
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Report Title:

Constitutional Amendment; Bill Passage; Supermajority

 

Description:

Proposes a constitutional amendment to include a two-thirds supermajority voting requirement for the legislature to pass laws that raise taxes or create new taxes.

 

 

 

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