STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 657-24
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2024
RE: H.B. No. 1884
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2024
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1884 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STANDARDS OF CONDUCT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi State Ethics Commission and one individual.
Your Committee finds that Act 123, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, required legislators to disclose, as part of their disclosure of financial interests, the names of any business partner, employer, officer or director of the employer, or client, who is subject to the mandatory reporting of contributions and expenditures for lobbyists. Your Committee further finds that Act 123 does not require the disclosure of any financial relationship with a lobbying organization. This measure folds in lobbying organizations for purposes of legislators disclosing financial relationships.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to January 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and
(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1884, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1884, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |
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