Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1317 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to advance the deadline for the annual filing of financial interests disclosure statements by public officers and employees from May thirty-first to May fifteenth.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure from the State Ethics Commission.

Your Committee finds that moving the date for financial interests disclosures statements would help the Commission and its clerical staff avoid a needless crunch of work around the end of May. At the same time, legislators would be provided approximately two weeks after the end of the session to file their financial disclosure statements.

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 S.B. No. 1317 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.