Hawaii Residency Requirement for Department Officials Amendment (2016)

Residency Requirement for Department Officials Amendment

Election date
November 8, 2016
Topic
State executive official measures
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment| Origin
State legislature

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## Contents

* 1 Text of measure
* 1.1 Ballot title
* 2 Path to the ballot
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 Footnotes

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The Hawaii Residency Requirement for Department Officials 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 The measure, upon voter approval, would have repealed the one-year minimum residency requirement for appointment to an executive position of a principal department.[1]

## Text of measure[edit]

### Ballot title[edit]

The proposed ballot question was:[1]

“  | Shall the one-year minimum Hawaii residency requirement to qualify for appointment as an executive of a principal department pursuant to article V, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii be repealed?[2] | ”

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## Path to the ballot[edit]

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[edit]

| Suggest a link

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* 2016 ballot measures
* Hawaii 2016 ballot measures
* Hawaii Legislature

## External links[edit]

* Senate Bill 1022

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hawaii Legislature, "SB 1022," accessed February 16, 2015
2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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