Bill Text: HI HB1108 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Gifts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-01 - Referred to GVR, JHA, FIN, referral sheet 3 [HB1108 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB1108-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to gifts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§84- Gifts
of aloha. (a) Notwithstanding
section 84-11 or any rule to the contrary, legislators and legislative employees
shall be authorized to accept a gift of aloha from lobbyists or their clients.
(b) As
used in this section:
"Gift of aloha" means anything of value, including a meal, whose fair market value
is $25 or less.
"Lobbyist" means any
individual who:
(1) Receives or
expects to receive, either by employment or contract, $1,000 or more in
monetary or in-kind compensation in any calendar year for engaging in lobbying,
either personally or through the lobbyist's agents; or
(2) For pay or
other consideration, on behalf of another person:
(A) Engages
in lobbying in excess of five hours in any month of any reporting period
described in section 97-3;
(B) Engages
in lobbying in excess of ten hours during any calendar year; or
(C) Makes
expenditures of $1,000
or more of the person's or any other person's money lobbying during any
reporting period described in section 97-3;
provided that an employee of a nonprofit organization who spends fewer than ten hours in any month lobbying on a grant application submitted pursuant to chapter 42F is not a lobbyist if the employee does not engage in lobbying on matters that are unrelated to the grant application."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Ethics Code; Gifts of Aloha
Description:
Authorizes legislators and legislative employees to accept gifts of aloha from lobbyists or their clients. Defines "gifts of aloha" as anything of value, including a meal, whose fair market value is $25 or less.
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
