Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 296, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require mandatory ethics training for a number of state officers.

Specifically, the bill requires the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, all legislators, elected members of the Board of Education, trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and executive department heads and deputies to complete mandatory ethics training courses administered by the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.

Your Committee finds that mandatory ethics training courses will help top state officials to better understand the intricacies of Hawaii's ethics and lobbying laws and enable them to confidently conduct their official duties with integrity and the highest of ethical standards.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 296, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.