Bill Text: HI SB576 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 576

Amended

Bill Title: Relating To Government.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [SB576 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-SB576-Amended.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	576
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023		S.D. 3
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

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

Section 1. The purpose of this Act is to require public access to travel reports for individual representatives of departments and agencies acting in an official capacity on behalf of the State.

SECTION 2. Chapter 40, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part IV to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§40- Travel report; departments and agencies of the State. Travel reports submitted by a state employee, officer, or other representative of any state department or agency, including the judiciary and university of Hawaii, in connection with out-of-state and intra-state travel where the travel was engaged in for purposes of official state business, shall be made available for public review on the comptroller's website; provided that personally identifiable information of each individual shall be kept private and excluded from the reports."

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2023-2024 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 to implement and manage digital and searchable public access to travel reports from departments and agencies of the State.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of accounting and general services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2112; provided that section 3 shall take effect on July 1, 2023.

Report Title:

Department of Accounting and General Services; Government; Comptroller; Travel Reports; Appropriations

Description:

Requires reports of official out-of-state and intra-state travel by state employees, officers, or other representatives of state departments or agencies, including the Judiciary and University of Hawaii, to be made available for public review on the Comptroller's website. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD3)

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