STAND. COM. REP. 264

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 680

H.D. 1

 

 

 

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. 680 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase awareness of Hawaii's ethics laws among the State's most visible officials and employees by requiring them to undertake formal ethics training. More specifically, this bill requires:

(1) The State Ethics Commission to design and conduct ethics orientation courses annually; and

(2) All legislators, elected members of the Board of Education (BOE), trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), and executive department heads and deputies to complete the training.

BOE, OHA, the State Ethics Commission, and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Requiring the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to also undertake this training; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct technical drafting errors.

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. 680, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 680, H.D. 1, 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