STAND. COM. REP. NO.  973

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 476

      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. 476, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISCLOSURES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase transparency by requiring the State Ethics Commission to provide a confidential copy of board and commission members' most recent financial disclosures to the Governor, the executive director of the applicable agency, and all other members of the filer's board or commission.  

The Hawaii State Ethics Commission commented on this measure.  The Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation opposed 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. 476, S.D. 1, 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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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair