Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2827 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Senate, House of Representatives, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs candidates to file all reports electronically.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Accounting and General Services, Campaign Spending Commission, Hawaii Clean Elections, and the League of Women Voters.

Your Committee finds that there is a need to improve public access to campaign spending information for legislative and Office of Hawaiian Affairs candidates. Your Committee further finds that there may be candidates that do not have access to a computer or the Internet and may require a waiver from electronic filing requirements. Your Committee believes that this measure will address all of these findings.

Your Committee adopted the amendment suggested by the Campaign Spending Commission to change the effective date of this measure to January 1, 2006. Your Committee also amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2827, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2827, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.