Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enact a new ethics law to require mandatory ethics training programs for all state officers and employees.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Hawaii State Ethics Commission (Commission), Board of Education, and League of Women Voters of Hawaii.

The Commission testified that it has had a strong education program since 1986. It conducts ethics workshops on Oahu and on the neighbor islands for hundreds of state officials and employees every year. Your Committee finds that a specific ethics program targeted to top levels of government officials would serve the State's interest in ethical government.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 680, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.