Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that the State's top officials understand the State's ethics and lobbying laws to enable them to carry out their official duties in an ethical manner.

This bill requires legislators, elected members of the Board of Education, trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and executive department heads and deputies to attend ethics training designed and conducted by the State Ethics Commission.

In addition to technical, nonsubstantive amendments, your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by changing the effective date to January 1, 2005.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.