STAND. COM. REP. 2658
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 3198
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3198 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to make certain amendments relating to the election campaign contributions and expenditures laws.
Your Committee finds that this measure proposes a number of amendments to part XII of chapter 11, Hawaii Revised Statutes (relating to election expenses), including the following provisions:
(1) Deleting the power of the Campaign Spending Commission to censure candidates for failing to abide by the code of fair campaign practices;
(2) Prohibiting campaign contributions in cash over $100;
(3) Prohibiting persons who enter into government contracts from making political contributions twelve months prior to the notice of the availability of a contract and twenty-four months after the completion of the performance of the contract; and
(4) Requiring any moneys from the Hawaii election campaign fund to be used for the operations of the Campaign Spending Commission to be appropriated pursuant to a budget appropriation act.
Your Committee has changed the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2040 to facilitate further discussion on this measure.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3198, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3198, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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