Report Title:

Electoral Process; Improved Public Disclosures

Description:

Requires Senate, House, and OHA candidates to file mandatory reports by electronic means. Allows candidates to request a waiver from electronic filing. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2827

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

S.D. 1

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 11-195, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (d) to read as follows:

"(d) All reports filed with the county clerk's office shall be preserved by that office for [ten] four years[.] from the date of receipt."

SECTION 2. Section 11-195, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:

"(f) For purposes of this subpart, whenever a report is required to be filed with the commission, "filed" means received in the office of commission or county clerk, whichever is applicable, by the date and time specified for the filing of the report; except that a candidate or the committee of a candidate who is seeking election to the office of:

(1) Governor;

(2) Lieutenant governor;

(3) Mayor;

(4) Prosecuting attorney; [or]

(5) County council;

(6) Senate;

(7) House; or

(8) Office of Hawaiian affairs;

shall file by electronic means in the manner prescribed by the commission. Candidates for the offices named in this subsection with contributions or expenditures of less than $5,000 need not file by electronic means. A candidate or committee without access to a computer or the internet may request a waiver of electronic filing from the commission."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2006.