Bill Text: HI HR5 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requests the United States Congress to recognize that corporations are not entitled to Constitutional rights and that the Constitution only grants rights to natural persons. (HR5 HD1)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-13 - (H) Resolution adopted in final form. [HR5 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HR5-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  990-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.R. No. 5

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.R. No. 5 entitled:

 

"HOUSE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THAT THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ONLY PROTECTS RIGHTS OF NATURAL PERSONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution providing that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States or any of its jurisdictional subdivisions.

 

     The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Americans for Democratic Action Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, and one concerned individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 5, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 5, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair