HARRISBURG — A state lawmaker asked his colleagues Tuesday to support an investigation into whether Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane should be removed from office.

Rep. Garth Everett, R-Lycoming, said about a dozen colleagues signed on after he circulated a memo regarding a resolution to begin a Judiciary Committee investigation of Kane.

Kane, a Democrat who has served as attorney general for three years, has a law license that’s currently under temporary, indefinite suspension as she fights criminal charges she leaked secret grand jury material to a newspaper and lied about it.

“She’s had misconduct, and it just adds up that she can’t do her job and she’s not doing the things an attorney general should do,” Everett said. Kane said through a spokesman that any such action would be premature. Everett’s co-sponsorship memo said he will soon introduce a resolution that would authorize the investigation. The state’s impeachment process would begin with a vote in the House, followed by trial in the Senate.

A state Senate report due today will explore a different potential means of removing Kane, under an obscure provision of the state constitution that involves the governor and requires a two-thirds vote of the 50-member Senate. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat who has called on Kane to step down, said Monday he was waiting to read the Senate report and declined to say if he would sign off on such a move.

Special Committee on Senate Address hearings on the process have raised questions about how Kane’s lack of a valid law license has affected office operations. Kane wrote the special committee last week to say removing her through that method would leave “no means of redress” for Kane or the people of the state.

“It would be an untenable situation wherein the Senate carries out such a removal and the temporary suspension upon which it relies as justification is thereafter dissolved or amended,” she wrote.

Everett said that if the Judiciary Committee comes up with grounds for Kane’s removal, they could be amended into a pending impeachment resolution introduced in August by Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler.

Metcalfe’s resolution cites as grounds for Kane’s removal her decision not to defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage in court, her decision not to pursue a public-corruption case involving payments to lawmakers and a judge, and her pending criminal charges.