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 S.B. No. 296, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require ethics training for elected and high level administration officials.

This bill requires the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, all legislators, elected members of the Board of Education, trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and executive department heads and deputies to complete mandatory ethics training courses administered by the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Ethics Commission, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Board of Education, and The League of Women Voters of Hawaii.

Your Committee believes that top state officials should be held to the highest standards of ethical conduct. This measure will ensure that these officials are provided guidance and an understanding of state ethics and lobbying laws and will help them to make ethical choices and decisions in carrying out their official duties.

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 S.B. No. 296, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.