STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2060

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2120

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 S.B. No. 2120 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 exempt contributions from a candidate's immediate family members from the law relating to contribution limits instead of the law that prohibits contributions from state and county contractors.

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

     Your Committee finds that this measure conforms the law relating to campaign contributions by a candidate's immediate family to the campaign finance laws prior to the codification of Act 211, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010.

     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. 2120 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