Report Title:

Public Disclosure of Financial Interest

Description:

Requires public disclosure of financial interest of members of certain, specified boards and commissions. (SB1957 HD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1957
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CODE OF ETHICS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 84-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

     "(d)  The financial disclosure statements of the following persons shall be public records and available for inspection and duplication:

     (1)  The governor, the lieutenant governor, the members of the legislature, candidates for and delegates to the constitutional convention, the members of the board of education, the trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs, and candidates for state elective offices;

     (2)  The directors of the state departments and their deputies, regardless of the titles by which the foregoing persons are designated; provided that with respect to the department of the attorney general, the foregoing shall apply only to the attorney general and the first deputy attorney general;

     (3)  The administrative director of the State;

     (4)  The members of the board of regents, the president, the vice presidents, the assistant vice presidents, the chancellors, and the provosts of the University of Hawaii;

     (5)  The superintendent, the deputy superintendent, the state librarian, and the deputy state librarian of the department of education;

     (6)  The administrative director and the deputy director of the courts; [and]

     (7)  The administrator and the assistant administrator of the office of Hawaiian affairs[.]; and

(8) The members of the following boards and commissions:

(A) The board of agriculture;

(B) The Hawaii community development authority;

(C) The board of trustees of the employees' retirement system;

(D) The Hawaiian homes commission;

(E) The board of land and natural resources;

(F) The land use commission;

(G) The public utilities commission;

(H) The board of directors of the research corporation of the University of Hawaii; and

(I) The board of directors of the Hawaii tourism

authority."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2112.