Title 3, Legislature

§23G-2 Assistant; staff. (a) The director shall appoint a first assistant and other officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the bureau. All employees, including the first assistant, shall be hired by the director and shall serve at the director's …

§23G-20 Continuous statutory revision. The revisor of statutes shall conduct a systematic and continuing study of the laws of Hawaii for the purpose of reducing their number and bulk, removing inconsistencies, redundancies, unnecessary repetitions and otherwise improving their cl…

§23G-3 General purposes of bureau. The purpose of the office of the legislative reference bureau shall be to: (1) Provide a comprehensive research and reference service on legislative problems for the legislature; (2) Conduct impartial research, including legal research, as may b…

[§23G-4] Prohibitions. Neither the director nor any employee of the bureau shall reveal to any person outside of the bureau the contents of matters of any request or statement for services except upon request of the person making the request or statement. [L 1972, c 171, pt of §2…

[§23G-5] Annual and other reports to be submitted to legislature; tracking, monitoring, reporting, coordination. The legislative reference bureau shall develop a system to track and monitor the submission of reports to the legislature by executive agencies and the judiciary. The …

§24-1 Allowance for incidental expenses. Each member of the legislature shall receive an annual allowance of $7,500, which amount is to cover incidental expenses connected with legislative duties and the amount shall be payable in a manner prescribed by the respective rules of ea…

[§24-1.5] Payment of legislative salaries. The annual salary of any legislator, as determined pursuant to Article III, section 9, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, shall be paid in equal amounts, beginning with the first pay period for state employees in November of the…

§24-2 Allowance for non-Oahu legislator during session. A member of the legislature whose legal residence is on an island other than Oahu shall receive an additional allowance to cover all personal expenses such as board, lodging, and incidental expenses but not travel expenses. …

§24-3 Allowance for expenses while traveling on official legislative business during a session within the State. A member of the legislature whose legal residence is on the island of Oahu and who is required to remain away from the island of the member's legal residence but withi…

§24-4 Allowance for expenses while on official legislative business during period of recess and interim official legislative business. When a session of the legislature is recessed for more than three days pursuant to a concurrent resolution or for any interim official legislativ…

§24-5 Allowance for expenses while traveling on official legislative business without the State. A member of the legislature while traveling without the State on official legislative business and when authorized by the presiding officer of the respective house, shall receive an a…

§24-6 Travel expenses. Travel expenses connected with official legislative business shall be allowed only upon the approval of the presiding officer of the respective house. [L 1969, c 5, pt of §1]

§24-7 Legislative contingency funds. A senate contingency fund and a house contingency fund shall be established. Each fund shall consist of moneys provided by any appropriation made by the legislature for the expenses of the respective house. Appropriation for the senate conting…

§24-8 Appropriation and payment. Moneys provided by the allowances and funds authorized by this chapter shall be paid out of any available appropriation made by the legislature for expenses of the house concerned in the same manner as other expenses of the legislature not inconsi…

§25-1 Reapportionment commission. (a) A reapportionment commission shall be constituted before May 1 of each reapportionment year, and the members shall be appointed and certified to hold office until a general election is held under a reapportionment plan of the commission, or o…

§25-2 Duties. (a) Legislative reapportionment. The commission shall reapportion the members of each house of the legislature on the basis, method, and criteria prescribed by the Constitution of the United States and article IV of the Hawaii State Constitution. For purposes of leg…

§25-3 Powers. The commission may require all such persons as it deems necessary to appear personally and testify before it and to produce to it all books, records, files, papers, maps and documents as shall appear to be necessary for the purpose of formulating a reapportionment p…

§25-4 Penalty for violation and false evidence. Any person who, having been summoned under section 25-3 to give testimony or to produce any books, records, files, papers, maps and documents, wilfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any questions or wilfu…

§25-5 Compensation. Each of the members of the reapportionment commission selected and certified shall, for the period the member holds the member's office, receive compensation of $50 per meeting but not to exceed $1,000 per month and shall be allowed actual and necessary expens…

§25-6 Cooperation. The commission may request and shall receive from every department, division, board, bureau, commission or other agency of the State cooperation and assistance in the performance of its duties. [L 1969, c 79, §6]

§25-7 Apportionment advisory councils. The apportionment advisory councils for the respective basic island units shall be constituted at the same time as the reapportionment commission and the members shall be appointed to hold their offices for such term in the manner prescribed…

§25-8 Records, reports. The commission shall keep a written record of its meetings and hearings and shall submit a written report to the legislature twenty days prior to the regular session next convening. [L 1969, c 79, §8; am L 1992, c 320, §4]

[§25-9] Commission; continuance after challenge of plan. In the event of a successful court challenge of a reapportionment plan, the reapportionment commission shall continue in operation and may assist the court in formulating a new reapportionment plan. [L 1992, c 320, §1]