STAND. COM. REP. NO. 539

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 452

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 452 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 require that supplemental campaign spending reports be filed annually on January 31 rather than after an election year.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission and Common Cause Hawaii.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

     Your Committee finds that existing law requires every candidate to file a supplemental report by January 31 after an election year and July 31 after an election year.  This measure will align the law with the present practice of candidates annually filing with the Campaign Spending Commission supplemental reports by January 31.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 452, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 452, S.D. 1, 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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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair