Report Title:

Campaign Spending; Administrative Fines

Description:

Prohibits the administrative enforcement of campaign contribution and expenditure violations subsequent to a person's criminal prosecution and conviction for a campaign spending misdemeanor violation.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

883

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to campaign spending.

 

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

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

"(f) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit prosecution under any appropriate provision of the Hawaii Penal Code or section 11-229[.]; provided that prosecution and conviction under section 11-229 shall prohibit subsequent administrative enforcement under this section."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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