Bill Text: HI HB862 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ethics Commission; Retention of Disclosure Information; Records

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB862 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB862-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  155

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 862

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 862 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve and update Hawaii's ethics laws by requiring the Hawaii State Ethics Commission to:

 

     (1)  Retain financial and gift disclosure statements in electronic form for an additional ten-year period past the initial six-year retention period currently required;

 

     (2)  Preserve lobbying reports in electronic form for an additional ten-year period past the initial four-year retention period currently required; and

 

     (3)  Develop rules regarding records retention and archiving  procedures for the disclosure statements and lobbying reports.

 

     The Honolulu Police Department, Americans for Democratic Action, and Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii State Ethics Commission testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 862 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair