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. 286 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to lower the gift disclosure threshold from $200 to $100, above which a legislator, government employee, spouse, or child of a legislator may be required to file a gift disclosure statement.

The Hawaii State Ethics Commission and the League of Women Voters testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that reducing the gift disclosure amount by half will afford greater public scrutiny in gifts received by elected public officials.

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. 286 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.