Prohibits certain elective officers from holding fundraisers or engaging in any fundraising activities during the period in which the legislature is in a regular session. Amends definition of "fundraiser."

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 11-203, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§11-203 Fundraisers and fundraising activities. (a) As used in this section, "fundraiser" means any function held for the benefit of a person that is intended or designed, directly or indirectly, to raise funds for political purposes [for which the price or suggested contribution for attending the function is more than $25 per person].

(b) There shall be no more than two fundraisers held for a person prior to a general or special election in which that person is either elected or defeated.

A person who is an elected state legislator and is seeking re-election to a state legislative office shall not hold a fundraiser during a legislative session or special session.

(c) No fundraiser or fundraising activity shall be held unless a notice of intent to hold the function is filed by the person in charge of the function with the commission prior to the date of the function setting forth the name and address of the person in charge, the price per person, the date, hour, and place of the affair and the method thereof.

(d) Fundraisers sponsored by a candidate for a statewide office are exempt from the [$25] limit of subsection (a) and the restrictions of subsection (b)[, and fundraisers sponsored]. Fundraisers by a party for a political purpose for the general benefit of the party are exempt from the restrictions of subsection (b). "

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on November 8^th, 2006.