Bill Text: HI HB852 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State Ethics Commission; Conflicts of Interests

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB852 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB852-Introduced.html

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Report Title:

State Ethics Commission; Conflicts of Interests

 

Description:

Expands conflicts of interests section of the state ethics code to include situations involving emancipated children.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	852
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to conflicts of interests.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 84-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  No employee shall take any official action directly affecting:

     (1)  A business or other undertaking in which [he] the employee has a substantial financial interest; [or]

     (2)  A private undertaking in which [he] the employee is engaged as legal counsel, advisor, consultant, representative, or other agency capacity[.]; or

     (3)  A business in which the employee knows or has reason to know that an emancipated child of the employee has a twenty-five per cent ownership interest in the business or serves as a member of the board of directors of the business or is an officer of the business.

     A department head who is unable to disqualify [himself] the department head's self on any matter described in [items] paragraph (1) [and], (2), or (3) [above] will not be in violation of this subsection if [he] the department head has complied with the disclosure requirements of section 84-17[; and].

     A person whose position on a board, commission, or committee is mandated by statute, resolution, or executive order to have particular qualifications shall only be prohibited from taking official action that directly and specifically affects a business or undertaking in which [he] the person has a substantial financial interest; provided that the substantial financial interest is related to the member's particular qualifications."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	By Request