STAND. COM. REP. 759
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 1547
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1547, 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:
(1) Amend campaign spending laws to provide alternative public funding for candidates seeking office in the Legislature who voluntarily abide by certain contribution and expenditure limits; and
(2) Appropriate $150,000 to the Campaign Spending Commission (Commission) for additional publicly-funded support staff.
The Interfaith Alliance, Hawaii, Advocates for Consumer Rights, Hawaii Clean Elections Coalition, and Green Party of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, and Hawaii Elections Project testified in support of the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation to the Commission for additional publicly-funded support staff from $150,000 to $1 for purposes of continuing further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 1547, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1547, 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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