Report Title:

Campaign Spending Report Violation

 

Description:

Increases administrative fines for failure of a campaign committee, person, corporation, organization, association, or labor union to file a report as required by law.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

823

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to campaign spending reports.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 11-228, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) In the performance of its required duties, the commission may render a decision or issue an order affecting any person violating any provision of this subpart that shall provide for the assessment of an administrative fine in the manner prescribed as follows:

(1) For failure to file a final and supplemental report for a primary, initial special, general, special general, special election, or election period, the commission may assess a campaign committee an initial amount not less than $1,000 and $100 for each subsequent day beyond the end of the filing period pursuant to sections 11-213(a) and 11-213(c);

[(1)] (2) If a natural person, an amount not to exceed [$1,000] $5,000 for each occurrence or an amount equivalent to three times the amount of an unlawful contribution or expenditure, whichever is greater; or

[(2)] (3) If a corporation, organization, association, or labor union, it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding [$1,000] $5,000 for each occurrence; and

[(3)] (4) Whenever a corporation, organization, association, or labor union violates this subpart, the violation shall be deemed to be also that of the individual directors, officers, or agents of the corporation, organization, association, or labor union, who have knowingly authorized, ordered, or done any of the acts constituting the violation."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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