Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 1717 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide for mandatory ethics training for legislators and appointed state employees.

The Honolulu Police Department and Common Cause Hawaii supported this bill. The Hawaii State Ethics Commission testified in support of the intent of this bill but expressed concerns regarding the feasibility of an annual mandatory ethics training program. The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and the Campaign Spending Commission commented on this bill.

Your Committee recognizes that this bill is very broad and recommends that your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs examine this bill more closely. Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs may want to limit the scope of this bill to only legislators and exclude all appointed state employees. Your Committee further recognizes that it may be necessary to include other elected officials like the Governor. In addition, your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs might want to consider the value of changing the mandatory annual training to every two years.

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. 1717 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.