Hawaii Residency Requirement for Legislative Candidates Amendment (2016)
| Residency Requirement for Legislative Candidates 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 Residency Requirement for Legislative Candidates 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 a candidate for the state legislature be a resident of the legislative district which he or she seeks to represent for not less than 12 consecutive months preceding the general election, except in the year following reapportionment.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot question was:[1]
| “ | To be eligible to be a candidate for the state senate or house of representatives, shall a person be required to be a resident of the legislative district from which the person seeks to be elected for not less than twelve consecutive months prior to the next general election, except in the year of the first general election following reapportionment when a candidate shall be required to be a resident of the legislative district for not less than one month prior to the deadline for filing nomination papers?[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:
- 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
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hawaii Legislature, "HB 1263," accessed February 16, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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