STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2625

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 Ways and Means, 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 allows a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney to qualify for partial public financing.

     More specifically, the measure provides that candidates may receive contributions, retroactive to January 1, 2008, that would qualify them for partial public financing, provided that contributions do not exceed the campaign expenditure limits.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the State Campaign Spending Commission.

     Your Committee finds that this measure reinstates language in the Hawaii Revised Statutes that was deleted by Act 203, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005.

     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. 2202 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair