CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 27

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   S.B. No. 1502
                                  S.D. 1
                                  H.D. 1
                                  C.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives
in S.B. No. 1502, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:  

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING," 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to require a candidate or a
committee to file a report with the Campaign Spending Commission
disclosing disbursements of over $1,000 per year which are made
for electioneering communications.

     Your Committee notes that informational and educational
advertising has become an unregulated and virtually unlimited
aspect of political campaigns, which may be used to target not
only individual candidates but also ballot issues.  Your
Committee agrees that allowing these types of communications to
go unregulated, while requiring registered candidates and
committees to submit reports is a loophole in the current law

 
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that provides an unfair advantage to those who are unregistered
yet expending funds to affect a particular election.  However,
your Committee also agrees that the threshold of $1,000 may be
unduly restrictive upon certain types of electioneering
communications. 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by increasing the threshold for reporting from $1,000 to
$2,000.

     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of S.B. No. 1502, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1502, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted,

MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE        MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE
            HOUSE                             SENATE
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair            AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ROMY M. CACHOLA, Member            MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
______________________________     ______________________________
SOL P. KAHO`OHALAHALA, Member      LES IHARA, JR., Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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CYNTHIA HENRY THIELEN, Member      WHITNEY ANDERSON, Member

 
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