STAND. COM. REP. NO.  972

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 451

      S.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 451, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONFLICTS OF INTEREST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the scope of conflict of interest provisions of the State Ethics Code by prohibiting state employees from taking any official action directly affecting a business or other undertaking in which a parent, sibling, or adult child of the employee has a substantial financial interest.  

The Hawaii 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 Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 451, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair