STAND. COM. REP. 1007
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 296
S.D. 1
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:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"
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.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,
____________________________ MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Chair |
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