Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 533 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to broaden the Standards of Conduct to require that disclosures of financial interests required to be filed yearly with the State Ethics Commission include holdings outside of the state.

The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, the League of Women Voters, and Advocates for Consumer Rights testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this measure will further Hawaii's ethics reform to help ensure the public's trust in elected officials.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

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. 533, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 533, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.