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HRS §23G-12

What the statute revisor must do and in what order

This section lists the revisor of statutes' main jobs in order of importance. The top job is publishing session laws, then supplements and replacement volumes, reviewing annotations, revising the statutes, publishing the administrative rules index, and making format rules for state agencies.

state agencies

The statute, as written — Duties

In performing the function of statute revision and publication of session laws, and supplements, and replacement volumes, the duties of the revisor of statutes, in the order of priority shall be: (1) The publication of the session laws; (2) The publication of supplements to the revised statutes; (3) The publication of replacement volumes of the revised statutes; (4) The review of annotations to the revised statutes; (5) The continuous revision of the statutes of Hawaii; (6) The publication of the Hawaii administrative rules index and supplements thereto; and (7) The preparation of rules of format to be followed by all state agencies in the compilation and publication of their rules and the distribution of copies of the format rules to all state agencies. [L Sp 1977 1st, c 8, pt of §1; am L 1979, c 216, §4]
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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