Hawaii Reapportionment Commission from Four Island Units Amendment (2016)

Reapportionment Commission from Four Island Units Amendment
Election date November 8, 2016
Topic Redistricting measures
Status Not on the ballot
Type Constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

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The Hawaii Reapportionment Commission from Four Island Units 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 required that the "reapportionment commission be composed of members from each of the four basic island units."

Text of measure

Ballot title

The proposed ballot question was:

“

Shall the constitutional provision establishing the reapportionment commission be amended to require the commission to include at least one member from each of the four basic island units?

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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:

• Through a two-thirds vote in both the Hawaii State Senate and the Hawaii House of Representatives, held in one legislative session.
• Through a simple majority vote in both chambers, held in two successive sessions of the legislature.

See also

Suggest a link

• 2016 ballot measures
• Hawaii 2016 ballot measures
• Hawaii Legislature

External links

• House Bill 526

Footnotes

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