STAND. COM. REP. NO. 595

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 445

       S.D. 1

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. 445 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TREASURERS OF CANDIDATE AND NONCANDIDATE COMMITTEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the treasurer of a candidate or noncandidate committee to maintain itemized records showing the employer and occupation, in addition to the name and address, of each contributor making a contribution regardless of the amount.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Libertarian Party of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies the record-keeping requirements for treasurers of candidate and noncandidate committees.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adopting the language suggested by the Campaign Spending Commission that:

          (A)  Reinstates language to require the treasurer of a candidate or noncandidate committee to maintain itemized records showing the name and address of each contributor, but for all contributions regardless of the amount; and

          (B)  Requires that the information regarding the employer and occupation of the contributors be collected and maintained for a candidate committee or noncandidate committee for the purposes of reporting certain required information on each candidate committee's or noncandidate committee's schedules; and

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 445, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 445, 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