Bill Text: HI SB848 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 848 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Legislators; State Employees; Disclosure

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-02 - The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB848 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB848-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1160

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2013

RE: S.B. No. 848

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 848, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enhance public trust and reduce real and perceived conflicts of interest by requiring legislators and state employees to disclose every source of annual income that totals more than the legislator's or employee's annual salary if that source is a registered lobbyist or lobbying organization.

The Hawaii State Ethics Commission provided testimony in support of the general intent of this measure. The League of Women Voters of Hawaii provided testimony in opposition to this measure. An individual provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2113, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 848, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 848, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair