STAND. COM. REP. NO.  156-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1552

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1552 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that increased penalties apply to the failure of a noncandidate committee to timely file a second preliminary general report.

The Campaign Spending Commission and Common Cause Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to make the penalties assessed on noncandidate committees the same as the penalties for similar violations by candidate committees.

     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. 1552 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair