SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT
FLOOR AMENDMENT NO. 15 DATE: April 29, 2003
TO: S.B. No. 459, C.D. 1
SECTION 1. Senate Bill No. 459, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1, is amended by amending subsection (a) of section 11-204, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended by section 7 of the bill to read as follows:
"(a) (1) No person [or any other entity] shall make contributions to:
(A) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a two-year office or to the candidate's committee in an aggregate amount greater than $2,000 during an election period;
[(B)](A) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-year statewide office or to the candidate's committee in an aggregate amount greater than $6,000 during an election period; [and]
(C) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-year nonstatewide office or to the candidate's committee in an aggregate amount greater than $4,000 during an election period.]
(B) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-year term of a nonstatewide office, or the candidate's committee, of an amount greater than $4,000 in the aggregate, for that election in which the candidate seeks office; or
(C) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a two-year term of office, or the candidate's committee, of an amount greater than $2,000 in the aggregate, for that election in which the candidate seeks office.
These limits shall not apply to a loan made to a candidate by a financial institution in the ordinary course of business.
(2) For purposes of this section, the length of term of an office shall be the usual length of term of the office as unaffected by reapportionment, a special election to fill a vacancy, or any other factor causing the term of the office the candidate is seeking to be less than the usual length of term of that office."
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