STAND. COM. REP. 3258
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: H.B. No. 680
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to ensure that the top officials of our state government understand the State's ethics and lobbying laws in order to carry out their official duties in an ethical manner.
Specifically, this measure requires legislators, elected members of the Board of Education, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, executive department heads and deputies, and trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to attend ethics training.
Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting section 2 of the bill, amending section 84-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to applicability as unnecessary because the applicability of the ethics training requirement is already specified in the new section 84-A;
(2) Renumbering the remaining sections of the measure accordingly;
(3) Making several technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity; and
(4) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.
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 H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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