STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2412

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2202

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, 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 measure is to qualify the office of prosecuting attorney for public campaign financing if the candidate does not exceed the respective campaign expenditure limit.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

     Your Committee finds that this measure reinstates language that was deleted by Act 203, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, and will be applied retroactively to January 1, 2008.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2202 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair