STAND. COM. REP. NO. 797-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2175
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2175, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting provisions that will allow and encourage persons with knowledge and expertise necessary to the State to serve as members of temporary groups convened to study an issue, make recommendations, or offer advice to state officers, even where these persons have a professional or financial connection to the subject which they will consider by:
(1) Adding a definition of "task force" to Chapter 84, HRS, to include any group convened for a limited, specified period by legislative or executive act or order, or by invitation of a state officer for the purpose of studying a subject or issue, making recommendations, or advising state officials; and
(2) Amending the definition of "employee" in Chapter 84, HRS, to explicitly exempt members of a task force, unless they would be considered a state employee for reasons other than their participation as a member of the task force.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2175, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2175, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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