Bill Text: HI SB1386 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Board of Regents; Financial Disclosure

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB1386 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1386-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 410

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1386

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1386 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require members of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to file an annual disclosure of financial interests with the Hawaii State Ethics Commission that will be a public record and available for inspection and duplication.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Ethics Commission and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that a large number of employees and officers of the State are required to file an annual disclosure of financial interests with the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.  As members of the entity that governs the only public institution of higher learning in the State, members of the Board of Regents should similarly be required to file a disclosure of financial interests that is public record in order to help deter conflicts of interest and promote greater openness and transparency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1386 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair