STAND. COM. REP. NO.113

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1056

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1056 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT ETHICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the financial interests disclosure law for public employees to include business interests and real property interests that are outside of the State of Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Ethics Commission and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that under existing law, public employees must disclose only their financial interests located within the State of Hawaii. When the State's ethics laws were first enacted, in 1972, it was much less likely that business interests and real property interests outside the State could affect a public employee's duties.

Now that our economy has become completely globalized, your Committee finds that it is appropriate to require disclosure of financial interests located outside the State, which may have an impact on the manner in which a public employee discharges his or her duties.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1056 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair