STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3086

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1604

       H.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1604, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that certificates of election be delivered only after the filing of reports in accordance with sections 11-331 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than the filing of expense statements, and payment of any fine assessed by the Campaign Spending Commission.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission and League of Women Voters of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that this measure ensures that the winning candidate is in compliance with campaign spending laws prior to the issuance of a certificate of election to that candidate.  Furthermore, setting the payment of any administrative fine already levied by the Campaign Spending Commission as a condition for the issuance of a certificate of election will further encourage campaign spending law compliance.

     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 H.B. No. 1604, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair