STAND. COM. REP. NO. 591

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 438

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 438 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FAILURE TO FILE A REPORT WITH THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Campaign Spending Commission to publish on its website the names of all noncandidate committees, in addition to the names of all candidate committees, that have failed to file a report or correct a report within a certain time permitted by the Commission.

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

     Your Committee finds that existing law requires the Campaign Spending Commission to publish on its website the names of all candidate committees that have failed to file a report or correct a report.  This measure includes within that law the publishing of the names of noncandidate committees to increase transparency and allow the public access to that information.

     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. 438 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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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair