STAND. COM. REP. NO.  141

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 855

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. 855 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the State Ethics Commission (Commission) additional time to destroy old financial disclosure statements.  Currently, the law requires the Commission to destroy these statements upon the expiration of a six-year retention period following the date when a filer leaves a state position.  This bill provides the Commission with an additional year following the retention period to destroy the statements.

     The Commission and The League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

     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. 855 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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