STAND. COM. REP. NO.  465-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2192

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2192 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide for the redaction of all amounts reported for certain financial interests of non-paid volunteer members of state boards, commissions, and agencies.

 

     The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, Common Cause Hawaii, League of Women Voters, and Society of Professional Journalists, Hawaii Chapter opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee recognizes that this measure retains existing law requiring the disclosure of certain financial interests of non-paid volunteer members of state boards, commissions, and agencies to the public.  Your Committee notes that this measure provides for the redaction of only the amounts reported for certain financial interests of non-paid volunteer members in their financial disclosure statements.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to further continued discussion on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2192, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2192, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair