STAND. COM. REP. NO.814
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 169
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 169, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to encourage viable candidates to run effective public campaigns by establishing a Public-funded Elections Pilot Program for the City and County of Honolulu Council elections of 2002.
This bill will test the feasibility of an alternate system of campaign financing that is intended to lessen the influence of special interests in campaigns.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, the Hawaii Green Party, Hawaii Clean Elections, and an individual. The Campaign Spending Commission opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting the provision that temporarily suspends the partial public funding program under chapter 11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, during the 2002 City Council election period;
(2) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct certain typographic, technical, and stylistic errors.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 169, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 169, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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