Report Title:

Campaign Contributions; Fundraisers

 

Description:

Prohibits certain elective officers from receiving any contributions during the period in which the legislature is in a regular session. Also prohibits certain elective officers from holding any fundraisers or engaging in any fundraising activities during the period in which the legislature is in a regular session.

 

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

833

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 11-203, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§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).

(e) With the exception of an elective officer in an elected state office who has a deficit as set forth in subsection (b), any elective officer in an elected state office shall not hold any fundraisers or engage in any fundraising activities during the period in which the legislature is in regular session."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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