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Hawaii Electronic Bills Amendment (2016)

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Electronic Bills Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2016
Topic
State legislatures
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment
Origin
State legislature


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The Hawaii Electronic Bills Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have allowed electronic copies of a bill to be made available to legislators when the bill is being voted upon for a third or final reading.[1]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The proposed ballot question is:[1]

Shall an electronic copy, as an alternative to a printed copy, of a bill be made available to members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for a third or final reading in fulfillment of the forty-eight hour availability requirement?[2]

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Hawaii Constitution

The Hawaii State Legislature can propose a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in two different ways:

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Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hawaii Legislature, "SB 242," accessed February 12, 2015
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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