STAND. COM. REP. NO.  323

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 826

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 826 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Ethics Commission for the design and development of a new system that would allow legislators, certain state officials and employees, and candidates for state elective office to more conveniently and effectively electronically file financial disclosure statements and other reports with the Commission.

The State Ethics Commission and Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

     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. 826 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair