Report Title:
Gift Disclosure Exemption; Job-Related Expenses
Description:
Exempts from the gift disclosure requirement expenses paid by a government entity on behalf of an employee for purposes related to the employee's duties or official capacity.
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
1388 |
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to standards of conduct.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 84-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d) Excluded from the reporting requirements of this section are the following:
(1) Gifts received by will or intestate succession;
(2) Gifts received by way of distribution of any inter vivos or testamentary trust established by a spouse or ancestor;
(3) Gifts from a spouse, fiance, fiancee, any relative within four degrees of consanguinity or the spouse, fiance, or fiancee of such a relative. A gift from any such person is a reportable gift if the person is acting as an agent or intermediary for any person not covered by this paragraph;
(4) Political campaign contributions that comply with state law;
(5) Anything available to or distributed to the public generally without regard to the official status of the recipient;
(6) Gifts that, within thirty days after receipt, are returned to the giver or delivered to a public body or to a bona fide educational or charitable organization without the donation being claimed as a charitable contribution for tax purposes; [and]
(7) Exchanges of approximately equal value on holidays, birthday, or special occasions[.]; and
(8) Expenses paid by a government entity on behalf of an employee for purposes related to the employee's duties or official capacity."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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