Bill Text: HI HB427 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electronic Copy; Constitutional Amendments (ConAm)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Referred to JDL. [HB427 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB427-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  657

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 427

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 427, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"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,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of the house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of the forty-eight hour availability requirement.

 

     One concerned individual supported this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 427, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair