HI SCR88

Requests the Legislative Reference Bureau to study and estimate the total cost to convene a constitutional convention in Hawaii, with results due by September 1, 2018.

Directs the study to assume the convention would have 102 delegates, convene at least five months before the next general election, and be held at a leased Honolulu facility.

Requires consideration of costs for delegate and staff compensation, public input mechanisms, and facility needs including plenary sessions, committee meetings, and office space.

References the 1978 constitutional convention's actual expenditures of $2,032,401, which would equal approximately $7,626,113 when adjusted for inflation to 2017.

Aims to provide voters with cost estimates to make informed decisions on the constitutional convention question appearing on the November 6, 2018, general election ballot.