Report Title:

State Ethics Commission; Disclosure Statements

Description:

Allows the state ethics commission a one-year period to dispose of financial interests disclosure statements after the period of retention has expired.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	855
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the disposition of financial interests disclosure statements.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 84-17.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

     "(a)  All financial disclosure statements filed by a legislator, employee, or delegate to a constitutional convention shall be maintained by the state ethics commission during the term of office of the legislator, employee, or delegate and for a period of six years thereafter.  Upon the expiration of the six-year period, the financial disclosure statement and all copies thereof shall be destroyed[.] within a one-year period.

     (b)  Upon the expiration of six years after an election for which a candidate for state elective office or a constitutional convention has filed a financial disclosure statement, the state ethics commission shall destroy the candidate's financial disclosure statement and all copies thereof[.] within a one-year period."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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