STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2726

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2493

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2493, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make a variety of amendments to the state campaign spending law.

More specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Defines the term "matching payment period";

(2)  Amends the due dates for the preliminary primary and supplemental reports to align the law with present practice;

(3)  Requires the noncandidate committee report to show total contributions received and made by noncandidate committees; and

(4)  Increases the campaign expenditure limit of the prosecuting attorney.

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

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide the Commission with the ability to better implement various programs of the office, align the law with present practice, and promote transparency of spending on independent campaign expenditures.

     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. 2493, S.D. 1, 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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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair