Bill Text: HI SB937 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Ethics; Disclosure; Financial Interests; Legislators
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Referred to LMG, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 30 [SB937 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-SB937-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ETHICS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 84-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The disclosure of financial interest required by this section shall be filed:
(1) By any person enumerated in subsection (c), except a member of the legislature, between January 1 and May 31 of each year;
(2) By a member of the legislature between January 1
and January [31] 15 of each year;
(3) Within thirty days of a person's election or appointment to a state position enumerated in subsection (c); or
(4) Within thirty days of separation from a state position if a prior financial disclosure statement for the position was not filed within the one hundred eighty days preceding the date of separation;
provided that candidates for state elective offices or the constitutional convention shall file the required statements no later than twenty days prior to the date of the primary election for state offices or the election of delegates to the constitutional convention."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on January 7, 2059, and shall apply to calendar years commencing with the year 2016.
Report Title:
Ethics; Disclosure; Financial Interests; Legislators
Description:
Changes the disclosure deadline for financial interests for legislators from between January 1 and January 31 to between January 1 and January 15 of each year. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
