Bill Text: HI HB1244 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Ethics.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-17 - The committee(s) on GVR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB1244 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB1244-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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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 84-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§84-13 Fair treatment. (a) No legislator or employee shall use or attempt to use the legislator's or employee's official position to secure or grant unwarranted privileges, exemptions, advantages, contracts, or treatment, for oneself or others; including but not limited to the following:
(1) Seeking other employment or contract for services for oneself by the use or attempted use of the legislator's or employee's office or position;
(2) Accepting, receiving, or soliciting compensation or other consideration for the performance of the legislator's or employee's official duties or responsibilities except as provided by law;
(3) Using state time, equipment or other facilities for private business purposes; or
(4) Soliciting, selling, or otherwise engaging in a substantial financial transaction with a subordinate or a person or business whom the legislator or employee inspects or supervises in the legislator's or employee's official capacity.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a legislator from introducing bills and resolutions, from serving on a committee, or from making statements or taking official action as a legislator. Every legislator shall publicly disclose the nature and extent of the interest or transaction that the legislator believes may be affected by the legislator's official action in accordance with section 84-17 and the rules of each house of the legislature.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a person from:
(1) Serving on a task force; or
(2) Making statements or taking official action as a task force member or a task force member's designee or representative;
provided that every task force member or designee or representative of a task force member shall publicly disclose the nature and extent of any interest or transaction that the task force member or task force member's designee or representative believes may be affected by the task force member's official action.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a person from the mere reuse of an image documenting a historical, governmental event.
[(d)] (e) The state ethics commission shall adopt rules
pursuant to chapter 91 to effectuate the purposes of this section, except that
each house of the legislature shall adopt rules regarding the disclosure of the
nature and extent of any interest or transaction that the legislator believes
may be affected by the legislator's official action. Rules adopted by the state
ethics commission shall apply only until such time that each house of the legislature
adopts its own rules. Upon the passage
of rules pursuant to this section by either house of the legislature, the rules
adopted by the state ethics commission shall be preempted by the rules of each respective
house of the legislature."
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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Report Title:
Ethics; Fair Treatment; Exemptions
Description:
Exempts from the fair treatment provisions of the Ethics Code, the mere reuse of an image documenting a historical, governmental event.
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