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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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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 The measure, upon voter approval, would have repealed the one-year minimum residency requirement for appointment to an executive position of a principal department.^[1]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an executive of a principal department pursuant to article V, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii be repealed?^[2]

”

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.

External links[edit]

Senate Bill 1022

Footnotes[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Hawaii Legislature, "SB 1022," 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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Hawaii Residency Requirement for Department Officials Amendment (2016)

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Text of measure[edit]

Ballot title[edit]

Path to the ballot[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Footnotes[edit]