Bill Text: HI SB2513 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Ethics Code; Appearance of Impropriety
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-25 - (S) Referred to JGO. [SB2513 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2513-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to ethics.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that public service is a public trust. All legislators and state employees are stewards of the public trust. To ensure and enhance public confidence in state government, each legislator and state employee must not only adhere to the principles of ethical conduct set forth in the ethics code codified in chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and comply technically therewith, but each legislator and state employee must scrupulously avoid the appearance of impropriety at all times.
The purpose of this Act is to prohibit conduct by legislators and state employees that is incompatible with the State's best interests and to minimize the risk of any appearance of impropriety by prohibiting conduct by legislators and state employees that creates the appearance of impropriety.
SECTION 2. Chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§84‑ Appearance of impropriety; prohibition. (a) Notwithstanding the absence of proof of any actual or intended violation of any provision of parts I or II of this chapter, no legislator or employee shall, by the legislator or employee's conduct or by participation in activities outside of the performance of the legislator or employee's official duties, create the appearance of impropriety by violating the spirit or intent of the provisions of parts I and II of this chapter or by giving a reasonable basis for the impression that the legislator or employee has violated the provisions of parts I and II of this chapter.
(b) For purposes of this section, an appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would suspect that the legislator or employee had violated the provisions of parts I and II of this chapter. An appearance of impropriety may exist even in the absence of an actual violation of any provision of parts I or II of this chapter."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Ethics Code; Appearance of Impropriety
Description:
Prohibits the appearance of impropriety by legislators and state employees.
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