Bill Text: HI SB1098 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Ethics; Gifts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1098 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1098-Introduced.html

Report Title:

Ethics; Gifts

 

Description:

Clarifies that the prohibition against a legislator or employee's solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of gifts applies to gifts from any lobbyist or other person.

 


THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1098

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO STANDARDS OF CONDUCT.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 84-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§84-11  Gifts.  No legislator or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing, or promise, or in any other form, from any lobbyist under chapter 97 or any other person, under circumstances in which it can reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence the legislator or employee in the performance of the legislator's or employee's official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on the legislator's or employee's part."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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