Hawai`i Legislative
Drafting Manual (Ninth Edition) - furnishes general guidelines for agencies and individuals who
prepare measures for introduction in the Hawai`i Legislature. PDF (320K).
Table of
Contents - addendum to electronic version listing pagination
differences with printed copy. (PDF 20K).
Hawai`i Legislators' Handbook - Bureau Report, 1997; describes legislative powers, sessions,
membership, organization, enactment of laws, voting, and parliamentary
procedure. HTML.
Hawaii Administrative Rules Drafting Manual - to serve as a basic document used by administrative agencies in
converting their rules to the universal format for state agency rules
mandated by the Legislature. Second Edition, June 1984. PDF (18.5MB -
LRB extends its thanks to DBEDT for the original scan and pdf).
LRB Notes - to provide basic background information relating to state government
in
areas that may include difficult, complex constitutional, legal and
legislative concepts.
Guide to Government in Hawai`i (Thirteenth Edition) - Bureau Report, 2007; discusses state and county
departments and their organization and the agencies of the federal
government having offices in Hawai`i. PDF (2.2MB)
Using Hawai`i's Freedom of Information Law - by Professor Beverly Ann Deepe Keever; a general
introduction for the public interested in knowing how to access state or
city /county records. PDF (13MB).
