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House Minority Leader calls attention to breach of 24-hour notice for 30 bills

House Minority Leader Rep. Lynn Finnegan decried the lack of notification on a flock of bills passed out of the House this week.

"The majority rushed through some 30 bills yesterday, instead of giving members of the House and the public 24 hour advanced notice before voting on final reading."

In her Tuesday news release, Rep. Finnegan acknowledges that the 24 hour notice is practiced as a courtesy. Courtesy or not, the incident demonstrates that House procedures can and are altered at whim.

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Star-Bulletin article on complaints

See today's Star-Bulletin article: Executive's role as intern at Legislature questioned and this Disappeared News post.

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Reform effort moving along: Read Ethics Commission Documents, PBN articles

Click here to read a letter from the Hawaii State Ethics Commission to legislators dated April 5, 2006.

Click here to read the most recent complaint, by Kokua Council.

Click here for the Pacific Business News article Companies place workers at State Capitol dated 3/21/2006.

Click here for the Pacific Business News article Capitol interns to get ethics review dated 4/7/2006.

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