STAND. COM. REP. NO. 880

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 996

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 996, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Ethics Commission to design and develop a system that allows filers to electronically file required statements and reports with the State Ethics Commission.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Common Cause Hawaii and four individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State Ethics Commission receives fiscal disclosure statements and other filings from legislators, state officials and employees, lobbyists, and candidates for state elective office.  Your Committee further finds that it is in the best interests of the filer, the State Ethics Commission, and the public for the State Ethics Commission to have a system where documents are electronically transmitted and accepted because it will lead to greater efficiency and accessibility.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting $130,000 as the amount to be appropriated; and

 

     (2)  Making the appropriation for only fiscal year 2015-2016.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 996, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 996, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair