STAND. COM. REP. NO.  298-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1604

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1604 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage compliance with campaign finance laws by providing that certificates of election will only be delivered after the person elected has filed disclosure reports and paid any fines assessed by the Campaign Spending Commission.

 

     The Campaign Spending Commission testified in support of this measure.  The League of Women Voters provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the reports required for delivery of certificates of election are reports filed in accordance with sections 11-331 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1604, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1604, 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair