HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2751

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding a new chapter to title 3 to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"Chapter

DECORUM AT THE LEGISLATURE

     §   -1  Disorderly or contemptuous behavior; harm; assault; arrest; detention.  (1)  Any person who is not a member of either house of the legislature who:

    (a)   Recklessly engages in disorderly or contemptuous behavior, committed in the presence of either house or any committee of a house, and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings or impair the respect due to such proceedings;

    (b)   Threatens harm to the person or estate of any member of either house, on account of the exercise of any legislative function;

    (c)   Assaults, arrests, or detains any witness or other person ordered to attend the proceedings of either house, on the witness' or other person's way going to or returning therefrom; or

    (d)   Rescues or attempts to rescue any person arrested by order of either house,

may be punished by such house by a fine of not more than $         or imprisonment of not more than thirty days.

     (2)  Any person who is charged under subsection (1) shall be entitled to notice in writing of the charge levied against the person, and shall have the opportunity to be heard and to present evidence before the appropriate house in the person's own defense.

     (3)  Whenever there is probable cause to believe that a person has violated subsection (1), the person shall be subject to arrest and removal from the presence of either house or any committee of a house, by the sergeant-at-arms of the affected house or by any other law enforcement officer of the State, as directed by the sergeant-at-arms."

     SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2034.


 


 

Report Title:

Legislature; Decorum

 

Description:

Implements the Legislature's constitutional authority to take action against disorderly or contemptuous behavior at the Legislature.  Effective July 1, 2034.  (HB2751 HD1)

 

 

 

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