Bill Text: HI HB251 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Mandatory Ethics Training
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB251 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB251-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 375
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: H.B. No. 251
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 251 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MANDATORY ETHICS TRAINING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to include specified department heads, administrative directors, and other high-level elected or appointed state officials and employees to those required to complete a mandatory ethics course with the State Ethics Commission within 60 days of their election or appointment.
The Hawaii State Ethics Commission and Common Cause testified in support of this measure. The University of Hawaii System offered comments on this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the requirement that the ethics training course last at least two hours in length to require that the ethics training course last no more than two hours in length;
(2) Clarifying the titles of certain positions for accuracy; and
(3) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2059, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 251, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 251, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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