Report Title:

State Ethics Commission; Disclosure of Financial Interests by Legislators

Description:

Requires a legislator to file a disclosure of financial interest between January 1st and January 31st. (HB853 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	853
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS STATEMENTS.

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

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

     "(b)  The disclosure of financial interest required by this section shall be filed:

     (1)  [Between] By an employee between January 1 and May 31 of each year;

(2) By a legislator between January 1 and January 31 of each year; provided that if a legislator is unable to provide the amount of income from any particular source of income required by subsection (f)(1) by January 31, the legislator shall make a good faith estimate of the amount of income from the source of income by January 31;

    [(2)] (3)  Within thirty days of one's election or appointment to a state position enumerated in subsection (c); or

    [(3)] (4)  Within thirty days of separation from a state position if a prior financial disclosure statement for the position was not filed within the one hundred eighty days preceding the date of separation;

provided that candidates for state elective offices or the constitutional convention shall file the required statements no later than twenty days prior to the date of the primary election for state offices or the election of delegates to the constitutional convention."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.