STAND. COM. REP. NO.  596-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2378

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2378, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make appointed members of state boards, commissions, and committees who are subject to Senate confirmation, aware of the laws and practices relating to standards of conduct, public meetings, and the Uniform Information Practices Act by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a public agency meetings and information practices training course to be administered by the Office of Information Practices in person or in an online format;

 

     (2)  Requiring the appointed members to complete the training course on public agency meetings and information practices within six months of each member's Senate confirmation; and

 

     (3)  Requiring the appointed members to complete an ethics training course administered by the State Ethics Commission within six months of each member's Senate confirmation.

 

     League of Women Voters; Common Cause Hawaii; and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  Office of Information Practices and Hawaii State Ethics Commission commented on this measure.  

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2378, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair