STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2152

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 182

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 182, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISCLOSURES OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Amend the filing deadline for disclosures of financial interests by candidates for state elective office or the constitutional convention;

(2) Amend the penalty for the unauthorized release of confidential financial disclosure statement information; and

(3) Amend the fines imposed and procedures relating to disclosures of financial interests.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 182, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair