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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 3, OF THE STATE
   CONSTITUTION TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A TAX REVIEW
   COMMISSION EVERY TEN YEARS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to propose an
 
 2 amendment to article VII, section 3, of the Constitution of the
 
 3 State of Hawaii, to change the appointment of a tax review
 
 4 commission from every five years to every ten years starting in
 
 5 the year 2005, in order to give the legislature and public
 
 6 sufficient time to consider the commission's recommendations.
 
 7      SECTION 2.  Article VII, section 3, of the Constitution of
 
 8 the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:
 
 9                      "TAX REVIEW COMMISSION
 
10      Section 3.  There shall be a tax review commission, which
 
11 shall be appointed as provided by law on or before July 1,
 
12 [1980,] 2005, and every [five] ten years thereafter.  The
 
13 commission shall submit to the legislature an evaluation of the
 
14 State's tax structure, recommend revenue and tax policy and then
 
15 dissolve."
 
16      SECTION 3.  The question to be printed on the ballot shall
 
17 read as follows:
 
18      "Shall a tax review commission be appointed every ten years
 

 
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 1      instead of every five years, starting in the year 2005?"
 
 2      SECTION 4.  Constitutional material to be repealed is
 
 3 bracketed.  New constitutional material is underscored.
 
 4      SECTION 5.  This amendment shall take effect upon compliance
 
 5 with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of
 
 6 Hawaii.
 
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 8                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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