STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2466

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2150
                                        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 S.B. No.
2150 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 include a bank statement in the list of items required for the
primary campaign spending report filed by a candidate, committee,
or party.  Because the requirements for the final and
supplemental campaign spending reports include by reference the
list of items required for the primary campaign spending report,
this bill also requires that a bank statement be included in the
final and supplemental campaign spending reports.

     Your Committee finds that inclusion of a bank statement with
the final and supplemental campaign spending reports will make it
easier for the Campaign Spending Commission to evaluate campaign
spending and will increase the Commission's ability to enforce
campaign finance laws.  However, your Committee finds that
inclusion of a bank statement with the primary campaign spending
reports will not help the Commission, and may inconvenience those
filing the reports.  The inflow of contributions and outflow of
campaign expenditures between the primary and general elections
would make it particularly difficult for a candidate, committee,
or party to reconcile the latest bank statement with the
campaign's records at the time the primary campaign spending
report was submitted.


 
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     Testimony in support of this measure, with an amendment, was
submitted by the Campaign Spending Commission.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by removing the bank statement requirement from the list
of items required in the final primary report and all subsequent
reports, and instead inserting the bank statement requirement as
a requirement applicable only to the final general election
period and supplemental reports.

     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 S.B. No.
2150, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2150, 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



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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