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Hawaii Merit Principles for Judicial Selection Amendment (2022)

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Hawaii Merit Principles for Judicial Selection Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
State judiciary
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Hawaii Merit Principles for Judicial Selection Amendment was not on the ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The measure would have required the judicial selection commission to be "guided by principles of merit" when selecting and retaining judges and justices.[1]

Text of measure

The full text was available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Hawaii Constitution

The state process

The Hawaii State Legislature can put a proposed amendment on the ballot upon either a two-thirds (66.67%) majority vote in both chambers of the legislature in the same session or two simple majority votes in both chambers held in two successive sessions. Constitutional amendments must be approved by a majority of the votes cast for the question, as long as the majority also is at least 50% of the total votes cast in the entire election. For measures approved at special elections by a majority of votes cast for the question, the majority must be at least 30% of the total number of registered voters in the state at the time.

2021 legislative session

This amendment was introduced as House Bill 340 on January 22, 2021. The measure was passed unanimously by the House on March 5, 2021, with one member excused.[1]

Vote in the Hawaii House of Representatives
February 22, 2021
Requirement: Two-thirds (66.67 percent) vote in each chamber; or a simple majority vote in each chamber in two sessions
Number of yes votes required: 34  Approveda
YesNoNot voting
Total5001
Total percent98.04%0.00%1.96%
Democrat4601
Republican400

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hawaii Legislature, "House Bill 340 (2021)," accessed March 8, 2021
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