STAND. COM. REP. NO.  17-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.B. No. 1855

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1855 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ETHICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to empower the State Ethics Commission to require the payment of restitution for ethics violations after a hearing or agreement between the parties.

The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, Common Cause Hawaii, and League of Women Voters supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1855, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1855, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair