Hawaii Unicameral Legislature Amendment (2016)

Unicameral Legislature Amendment
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 Unicameral Legislature 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 created a unicameral legislature in place of the state's bicameral legislature. The new legislature would be composed of 51 members.

Text of measure

Ballot title

The proposed ballot question was:

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Shall: (1) The legislature be changed from a bicameral legislature with a house of representatives and a senate to a unicameral legislature with only one chamber, to be known as the legislature, commending after the general election in November 2016; (2) The total number of legislators be changed from seventy-six to fifty-one legislators representing fifty-one single member districts, who shall serve staggered terms of four years each; and (3) The composition of the reapportionment commission be changed to provide that four members each shall be appointed by the speaker and minority leader of the legislature, with appointees choosing the ninth member; and change the composition of the judicial selection commission to require four members to be appointed by the speaker of the legislature, with the governor to appoint two members, the chief justice to appoint one member, and the members of the bar to elect two members?

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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

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

External links

• Senate Bill 931

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