SB2362

Report Title:

Reapportionment; senate districts

Description:

Proposes to amend the state constitution to require the reapportionment commission to reapportion state senate districts into multi-member districts where practicable

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2362
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Proposing an amendment to the Hawaii constitution to require the reapportionment commission to reapportion state senate districts into multi-member districts where practicable.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to the constitution of the state of Hawaii to require the reapportionment commission to reapportion state senate districts into multi-member districts where practicable.

SECTION 2. Article IV, section 4, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"APPORTIONMENT AMONG BASIC ISLAND UNITS

Section 4. The commission shall allocate the total number of members of each house of the state legislature being reapportioned among the four basic island units, namely: (1) the island of Hawaii, (2) the islands of Maui, Lanai, Molokai and Kahoolawe, (3) the island of Oahu and all other islands not specifically enumerated, and (4) the islands of Kauai and Niihau, using the total number of permanent residents in each of the basic island units and computed by the method known as the method of equal proportions; except that no basic island unit shall receive less than one member in each house[.], and provided that the state senate shall have multi-member districts where practicable."

SECTION 3. The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:

"Shall the reapportionment commission be required to reapportion the state senate into multi-member districts where practicable?"

SECTION 4. Constitutional material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New constitutional material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with Article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

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