HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2399
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Proposing an Amendment to Article I, Section 23, of the Hawaii State Constitution to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples.

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

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to propose an amendment to article I, section 23, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples.

     SECTION 2.  Article I, section 23, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is amended to read as follows:

"MARRIAGE

Section 23.  [The legislature shall have the power to reserve marriage] Marriage shall be reserved to opposite-sex couples."

     SECTION 3.  The question to be printed on the ballot shall be as follows:

     "Shall the Constitution of the State of Hawaii be amended to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples?" 

     SECTION 4.  Constitutional material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New constitutional material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This amendment shall take effect upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Constitutional Amendment; Marriage

Description:

Proposes a constitutional amendment to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples.

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