New members of the Hawaii State Legislature and other new state officials began 2007 by attending a
mandatory ethics training course that was held by the Hawaii State Ethics Commission in January.
State ethics laws require that the ethics course be taken by legislators, members of the Board of
Education, trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the governor and lieutenant governor, and
executive department heads and their deputies. The course was first held in 2005 and is repeated every
year for new officials who have not attended the course previously. The two-hour course covers the
State Ethics Code (Chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes) and the Lobbyists Law (Chapter 97, Hawaii Revised Statutes).