THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1326
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to gifts.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 84-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§84-11 Gifts. (a) No legislator or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing, or promise, or in any other form, under circumstances in which it can reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence the legislator or employee in the performance of the legislator's or employee's official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on the legislator's or employee's part.

(b) This section shall not apply to the acceptance of "gifts of aloha".

(c) For purposes of this section "gifts of aloha" means a gift that is not reasonably intended to influence the recipient in the performance of a specific duty or intended to be a reward for the performance of a specific duty and does not exceed twenty-five dollars in value."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Ethics Code; Gifts of Aloha

Description:

Exempts "gifts of aloha", the value of which does not exceed twenty-five dollars, from the prohibition against accepting gifts in the state code of ethics.

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