Bill Text: HI HB1730 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Land Use Commission; Conflict of Interest

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-23 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [HB1730 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1730-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  22-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1730

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1730 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit members of the Land Use Commission from voting on action taken by the Commission if there is a conflict of interest.

 

     The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.  The Hawaii State Ethics Commission and a concerned individual commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting from the definition of "material personal involvement" reference to commissioners who own or are directors, officers, or managers of an association that owns beneficially or of record five per cent or more of the outstanding equity interests or outstanding shares of the entity that controls the parcel of land that is subject to a land use commission proceeding.  This deletion is necessary to avoid inconsistencies with the State Ethics Code.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments have also been made for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1730, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1730, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair