STAND. COM. REP. NO.  314

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 853

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 853 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS STATEMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require legislators to submit financial disclosure statements in a more timely manner.

     This bill requires legislators to file their annual statements between January 1^st and January 31^st instead of between January 1^st and May 31^st.  Under this bill, if a legislator is unable to provide information on the amount and source of income greater than $1,000, the legislator must submit a good faith estimate by January 31^st and subsequently file an amended disclosure form identifying the income amount by May 31^st.

     The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The State Ethics Commission supported this bill with amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the requirement that legislators file an amended disclosure form by May 31^st.

     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 H.B. No. 853, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 853, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

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JAMES KUNANE TOKIOKA, Chair