STAND. COM. REP. NO.  560

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 813

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 813, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the fair treatment law by:

 

     (1)  Separating out certain limitations placed on task force members from those placed on legislators; and

 

     (2)  Clarifying that legislators are not prohibited from taking action in the exercise of a legislator's legislative functions.

 

     The State Ethics Commission; League of Women Voters Hawaii; Common Cause Hawaii; and a concerned individual supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.


     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. 813, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 813, H.D. 2.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair