STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2491

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     S.B. No. 2388

        S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2388 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Change the maximum amount of public funds available to each candidate running for the Office of State Senator, State Representative, County Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to an unspecified per cent of the expenditure limit established for each election; and

 

     (2)  Amend the amount each Office of Hawaiian Affairs candidate must raise in order to qualify for public funds.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Common Cause Hawaii and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission and Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that candidates running for the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs who voluntarily agree to participate in the partial public funding program run statewide campaigns but are provided substantially less partial public funding than other statewide candidates.  This measure will increase the partial public funding expenditure limit and maximum amount of public funds available for candidates for these Board of Trustees candidates.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Increasing the amount a candidate for the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs must raise to qualify for public funds from $1,500 to $5,000; and

 

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of upon approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2388, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2388, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair