STAND. COM. REP. NO.  796

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 289

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 289 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTION CAMPAIGN REPORTING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require a candidate or noncandidate committee to inform the Campaign Spending Commission before the first preliminary reports are due if the candidate or noncandidate committee does not intend to receive or spend contributions and expenditures that aggregate more than $1,000 in an election period.

 

     The Campaign Spending Commission and one individual testified in support of the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 289, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 289, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair