STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3326

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1925
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
1925 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to increase from one hundred twenty days to one hundred fifty
days the time within which a new election must be held if an
election is invalidated by the court.

     Your Committee finds that there is insufficient evidence
that the current timespan is too short for a new election to be
conducted.  Your Committee believes that such elections should be
conducted as expeditiously as possible.

     Your Committee finds that the campaign spending laws could
be improved by an assortment of housekeeping and substantive
changes.  The title of this bill is broad enough to encompass
such changes.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Office of Elections.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by deleting its contents and substituting therefor
provisions that:


 
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     (1)  Extend the time for a candidate to file the
          organizational report to ten days after filing
          nomination papers;

     (2)  Add candidates for the Senate and House of
          Representatives into the list of offices that require
          electronic filing;

     (3)  Require an organizational report to include a
          candidates web page and e-mail address, if any;

     (4)  Remove a redundant requirement for a ballot issue
          description from the organizational report
          requirements;

     (5)  Permit campaign funds to be used for charitable
          donations and ordinary and necessary expenses of
          office;

     (6)  Allow an inadvertent excess donation to be returned to
          the donor, and require notification to the campaign
          spending commission, within 30 days;

     (7)  Clarify the public funding available for the offices of
          governor, lieutenant governor, and mayor; and

     (8)  Make technical, nonsubstantive changes to current law
          for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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.
1925, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1925, S.D. 1, and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



                                   ______________________________
                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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