STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1470

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1502
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1502, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Require a candidate or a committee to file a report
          with the Campaign Spending Commission disclosing
          disbursements for electioneering communications over a
          $5,000 annual threshold, and;

     (2)  Treat the expenses incidental to a fundraiser as
          campaign expenditures.

     Testimony in support of the bill was received from the
League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii.
Additional testimony was received from the Campaign Spending
Commission, the Hawaii State Coordinating Council on Deafness,
and the Aloha State Association of the Deaf.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing from $5,000 to $1,000 the aggregate amount for
          which disclosure is required; and


 
 
 
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     (2)  Deleting language that treated expenses incidental to a
          fundraiser as campaign expenditures.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1502, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1502, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the
calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair