Report Title:

Elections; prohibited fundraising activities

Description:

Prohibits appointed public employees who are candidates for elective office from holding fundraisers until they have resigned or taken a leave of absence from their position.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

864

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to fundraisers and fundraising activities.

 

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) Any candidate who holds a position as an appointed public employee shall be prohibited from holding any fundraiser or engaging in any fundraising activity until the candidate:

(1) Resigns from the appointed position; or

(2) Takes a leave of absence from the appointed position for the duration of the candidate's candidacy."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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