Report Title:
Campaign Finance Reform
Description:
Requires employer and labor unions to place a dollar value on the time that its volunteer employees and labor union members spend on any political campaign effort for a candidate and to limit this expenditure to not more than $2,000 in an election period. Requires this information to be included in campaign spending report.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1645 |
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TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to campaign spending.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part XII to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§11- Value of services; partisan efforts of volunteer employees and union members when employer or labor union endorses a particular candidate. The aggregate value based on the actual per hour rate (whether on a work day or not) that would have been paid by the person's employer to each participating volunteer who is an employee of a corporation or a member of a labor union that has endorsed a candidate shall not exceed $2,000 during an election period."
SECTION 2. Section 11-191, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "expenditure" to read:
""Expenditure" means:
(1) Any purchase or transfer of money or anything of value, or promise or agreement to purchase or transfer money or anything of value, or payment incurred or made, or the use or consumption of a nonmonetary contribution for the purpose of:
(A) Influencing the nomination for election, or election, of any person seeking nomination for election, or election, to office whether or not the person has filed the person's nomination paper;
(B) Influencing the outcome of any question or issue that has been certified to appear on the ballot at the next applicable election; or
(C) Use by any party or committee for the purposes set out in subparagraph (A) or (B);
(2) The payment, by any person other than a candidate or committee, of compensation for the personal services of another person that are rendered to the candidate or committee for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1); or
(3) The expenditure by a candidate of the candidate's own funds for the purposes set out in paragraph (1).
(4) The term does not include volunteer personal services and voter registration efforts that are not partisan.
(5) The aggregate value of time (whether an employee's or union member's work day or not) based on the actual per hour rate paid by an employer to employees of a corporation or union members whose efforts are partisan and when called upon by the employer or labor union to campaign for a candidate and which activities are designed to influence voters favorably towards a candidate."
SECTION 3. Section 11-196, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§11-196 Organizational report, candidate's committee. (a) The organizational report shall include:
(1) The name and address of the candidate or individual, or committee, filing the report, including web page address, if any;
(2) The name, address, office sought, district, and party affiliation, of each candidate or individual whom the committee or party is supporting;
(3) The names and addresses of the campaign treasurer and deputies together with the treasurer's written acceptance of appointment;
(4) The names and addresses of the campaign chairperson and deputy campaign chairperson together with the campaign chairperson's written acceptance of appointment;
(5) A list of all banks, safety deposit boxes, or other depositories used with each applicable account number; [and]
(6) The amount, name, and address, of each donor who has contributed an aggregate amount of more than $100 since the last election applicable to the office being sought and the amount and date of deposit of each such contribution[.]; and
(7) The aggregate value of volunteer employees' or labor union members' time (based on actual per hour rate paid by the person's employer to each participating volunteer employee or labor union member whether or employee's on union member's work day or not) and brief description of campaign activity for which that time was spent applicable to the office being sought, name and address of corporation or labor union.
(b) Any change in information submitted in the organizational report with the exception of subsection (a)(6) shall be reported no later than 4:30 p.m. on the tenth calendar day after such change is brought to the attention of the candidate, committee, or campaign treasurer."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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