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Hawaii Population Growth and Housing Production Plan Amendment (2022)

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Hawaii Population Growth and Housing Production Plan Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Housing
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Hawaii Population Growth and Housing Production Plan Amendment was not on the ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The measure would have amended the constitution to require the state and local political subdivisions to plan for housing production in order to meet planned demands while planning and managing population growth.[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 Senate Bill 29 on January 21, 2021. The measure was passed by the Senate on February 22, 2021, by a vote of 24-1.[1]

Vote in the Hawaii State Senate
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: 17  Approveda
YesNoNot voting
Total2410
Total percent96.00%4.00%0.00%
Democrat2310
Republican100

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hawaii Legislature, "Senate Bill 29 (2021)," accessed February 27, 2021
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