Bill Text: HI HB59 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Qualifications of State Senators and Representatives; Residency
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-22 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [HB59 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB59-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 178-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 59
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 59, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION RELATING TO RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that candidates for legislative office are familiar with the problems and concerns of the jurisdictions that they seek to represent. Specifically, this bill proposes to amend the Hawaii Constitution by requiring candidates to be residents of the senatorial or representative district from which they seek to be elected for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the general election.
The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Ironworkers Stabilization Fund testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to December 21, 2058, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 59, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 59, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair |
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