STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2572

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2231

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2231, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt certain unpaid board or commission members from the additional $10 per day administrative fine imposed for late financial disclosures to the state ethics commission.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Common Cause Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.

 

     Your Committee finds that many individuals volunteer their time, energy, and expertise to the State's various boards and commissions and that subjecting these volunteers to fines for filing late financial disclosures serves as a deterrent to volunteering to be a member of a board or commission.  Further, although not included in the list of public boards and commissions found in section 84-17(d)(8), Hawaii Revised Statutes, your Committee believes that the University of Hawaii Board of Regents and the Board of Education should be treated the same as other public boards and commissions in regards to the $10 per day fine for late financial disclosures to the ethics commission.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing a reference to section 84-17(d)(8), Hawaii Revised Statutes, so that the members of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents and the Board of Education will be treated like other public board and commission members.

 

     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. 2231, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2231, S.D. 2.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair