Report Title:

Elections; Fundraisers

 

Description:

Repeals limits on number of fundraisers or fundraising activities.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2984

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that under current law, no more than two fundraisers may be held for a person prior to a general or special election in which that person is either elected or defeated. Limiting the number of fundraisers is a hardship for candidates, who face increasingly costly races for public offices at all levels.

The purpose of this Act is to repeal the limit on the number of fundraisers.

SECTION 2. Section 11-203, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["§11-203 Fundraisers and fundraising activities. (a) As used in this section, "fundraiser" means any function held for the benefit of a person that is intended or designed, directly or indirectly, to raise funds for political purposes for which the price or suggested contribution for attending the function is more than $25 per person.

(b) There shall be no more than two fundraisers held for a person prior to a general or special election in which that person is either elected or defeated.

(c) No fundraiser or fundraising activity shall be held unless a notice of intent to hold the function is filed by the person in charge of the function with the commission prior to the date of the function setting forth the name and address of the person in charge, the price per person, the date, hour, and place of the affair and the method thereof.

(d) Fundraisers sponsored by a candidate for a statewide office are exempt from the $25 limit of subsection (a) and the restrictions of subsection (b), and fundraisers sponsored by a party for a political purpose for the general benefit of the party are exempt from the restrictions of subsection (b)."]

SECTION 3 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 4 This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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