Report Title:

Standards of Conduct

Description:

Increases post employment restriction from twelve months to twenty-four months for former legislator.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1655
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO ETHICS.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 84-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  No former legislator, within [twelve] twenty-four months after termination of the former legislator's employment, shall represent any person or business for a fee or other consideration, on matters in which the former legislator participated as a legislator or on matters involving official action by the legislature."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

INTRODUCED BY:

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