SB 678 Hawaii Senate · 2019 Regular Session

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS.

Summary

Requires the legislature to follow fundamental principles of the sunshine law, including: requiring a majority vote to suspend legislative rules; requiring proposed amendments on a measure to be germane to the text to be amended; and requiring all floor votes to be printed on the order of the day before consideration. Specifies that correspondence received by the legislature or any of its committees on a measure is testimony on the measure and subject to disclosure as a public record. (SD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2019

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 18, 2019 Last action Feb 8, 2019

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Committee

Feb 8, 2019

Committee

Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.

upper

Feb 8, 2019

Committee

Reported from GVO (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 123) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC/WAM.

upper

Jan 31, 2019

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) L. Thielen, Inouye, Kanuha, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Baker.

upper

Jan 28, 2019

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on GVO has scheduled a public hearing on 01-31-19 2:45PM in conference room 225.

upper

Jan 24, 2019

Committee

Referred to GVO, JDC/WAM.

upper

Jan 18, 2019

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors