Report Title:

Campaign Spending; Public Funding; House of Representatives

Description:

Increases amount that may be spent per voter for state and county elections. (SD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1068
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to campaign spending.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 11-209, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  From January 1 of the year of any primary, special, or general election, the total expenditures for each election for candidates who voluntarily agree to limit their campaign expenditures, inclusive of all expenditures made or authorized by the candidate alone and all campaign treasurers and committees in the candidate's behalf, shall not exceed the following amounts expressed respectively multiplied by the number of voters in the last preceding general election registered to vote in each respective voting district:

     (1)  For the office of governor—[$2.50;] $2.60;

     (2)  For the office of lieutenant governor—[$1.40;] $1.50;

     (3)  For the office of mayor—[$2.00;] $2.10;

     (4)  For the offices of state senator, state representative, and county council member[--$1.40; and], and prosecuting attorney--$1.50; and

     (5)  For the offices of the board of education and all other offices—[20 cents.] 25 cents."

     SECTION 2.  Section 11-218, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§11-218  Candidate funding; amounts available.  (a)  For the office of governor, lieutenant governor, or mayor, the maximum amount of public funds available to a candidate in any election shall not exceed [ten] fourteen per cent of the total expenditure limit as determined under section 11-209 for each election for each office listed in this subsection.

     (b)  For the office of state senator, [state representative,] county council member, and prosecuting attorney, the maximum amount of public funds available to a candidate in any election shall be [fifteen] nineteen per cent of the total expenditure limit as determined under section 11-209 for each election for each office listed in this  subsection."

(c)  For the office of state representative, the maximum amount of public funds available to a candidate in any election shall be fifty per cent of the total expenditure limit as determined under section 11-209 for each election.

     [(c)](d)  For the office of Hawaiian affairs, the maximum amount of public funds available to a candidate shall not exceed $1,500 in any election year.

     [(d)](e)  For the board of education and all other offices, the maximum amount of public funds available to a candidate shall not exceed $100 in any election year.

     [(e)](f)  Each candidate who qualified for the maximum amount of public funding in any primary election and who is a candidate for a subsequent general election shall apply with the commission to be qualified to receive the maximum amount of public funds as provided in this section for the respective election.  For purposes of this section, "qualified" means meeting the qualifying campaign contribution requirements of section 11-219."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.