Bill Text: HI SB666 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Boards and Commissions; Financial Disclosures
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB666 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB666-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Current law requires members of boards and commissions, among other persons, to file disclosure of financial interests with the state ethics commission. The financial disclosures inform the public of whether a board member may have a potential conflict of interest.
The legislature finds that in the interest of an informed public, a copy of each board or commission member's financial disclosure statement should be made available to the chair of each respective board or commission to enable the chair to determine if any member may have a conflict of interest in voting on any particular matter.
The purpose of this Act is require the state ethics commission to make available to every chair of a board or commission a copy of the most recent financial disclosure of board or commission members.
SECTION 2. Section 84-17.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§84-17.5 Disclosure files;
disposition[.]; copy available to board or commission
chair. (a) All financial disclosure statements filed by a legislator,
employee, or delegate to a constitutional convention shall be maintained by the
state ethics commission during the term of office of the legislator, employee,
or delegate and for a period of six years thereafter. Upon the expiration of
the six-year period, the financial disclosure statement and all copies thereof
shall be destroyed.
(b) Upon the expiration of six years after an election for which a candidate for state elective office or a constitutional convention has filed a financial disclosure statement, the state ethics commission shall destroy the candidate's financial disclosure statement and all copies thereof.
(c) Financial disclosure statements provided for in section 84-17(d) shall cease to be public records once the six-year period in subsection (a) or (b) has run.
(d) Nothing herein shall bar the state ethics commission from retaining a financial disclosure statement or copy of a financial disclosure statement that has become part of a charge case or advisory opinion request, or is part of an ongoing investigation.
(e) The state ethics commission shall make available to the chair or executive director of any state board or commission that is required to file a disclosure of financial interests under section 84-17, a copy of the current financial disclosure statement of any current member of that board or commission; provided that copies of any financial disclosure statement made available pursuant to this subsection:
(1) May be distributed to current members of that board or commission for the sole purpose of determining whether a current member of that board or commission has a conflict of interest under section 84-14; and
(2) Shall be held in the strictest confidence at all times.
Any person who releases confidential information shall be subject to sections 84-31 and 84-39.
All copies of a member's financial disclosure statement that are made available to a chair or executive director of a board or commission pursuant to this subsection shall be destroyed by that chair or executive director on the expiration date of the member's term of office."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Boards and Commissions; Financial Disclosures
Description:
Requires the state ethics commission to make available to every chair of a board or commission a copy of the most recent financial disclosure of board or commission members.
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