Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 887, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require corporations that contribute more than $10,000 in an election period to file campaign spending reports similar to those for candidate and noncandidate committees.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

Your Committee finds that with the wave of indictments of public officials in recent years, public confidence in the integrity of the legislative process has diminished. Your Committee believes that it is vital that the public believes that its elected officials are working in the public interest, and not solely to benefit those entities that provide financial support to a candidate.

Therefore, your Committee believes that this measure may improve public confidence in their elected officials.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 887, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.