Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 286 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the State's code of ethics by imposing more stringent limits on the value of gifts received by legislators, employees, and their spouses and dependents.

Specifically, this bill reduces, from more than $200 to more than $100, the value of gifts valued singly or in the aggregate, as one of the conditions that triggers a gifts disclosure statement to be made to the State Ethics Commission by legislators, employees (any nominated, appointed, or elected officer or employee of the State, including members of boards, commissions, and committees, and employees under contract to the State, or of a constitutional convention), their spouses, and dependent children.

Your Committee believes that this measure takes one step further in contributing to ethics reform in Hawaii.

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. 286 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.