STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1341-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2202

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2202 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARTIAL PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow a candidate running for the office of prosecuting attorney to qualify for partial public campaign financing, subject to campaign expenditure limits.

     The Campaign Spending Commission testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to January 1, 2012.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2202, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2202, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair