STAND. COM. REP. NO.  760

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1132

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1132 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS STATEMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure transparency in government by amending the state Code of Ethics to:

 

     (1)  Specify that state employees must file a disclosure of financial interest statement between January 1 and May 31 of each year; and

 

     (2)  Require state legislators to file a disclosure of financial interest statement between January 1 and January 31 of each year.

 

     The State Ethics Commission, Life of the Land, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying which state employees must file the disclosure of financial interest statement between January 1 and May 31 of each year; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style. 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1132, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair