Hawaii Revised Statutes 25. Reapportionment

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...

Law Journals and Reviews

A History of Recent Reapportionment in Hawaii. 22 HBJ 171.

Last modified: October 27, 2016