STAND. COM. REP. 140

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 753

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 753 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE STATE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the Hawaii State Ethics Commission (Commission) to set the salary of its executive director.

The Commission, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that it is more appropriate for the Commission to set the salary of its executive director, than to have this salary set in statute. As the Commission is a watchdog agency that monitors legislators and issues legal advice to legislators, allowing the Commission to set its own salary will eliminate the appearance of a conflict of interest when the Legislature adjusts salaries of state officials.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 753 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

 

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MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Chair