STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2544

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2153

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2153 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS OF CANDIDATE COMMITTEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the requirement that candidate committee organizational reports include the name and address of each contributor who contributed an aggregate amount of more than $100 to the candidate committee since the last election.

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

Your Committee finds that candidate committee organizational reports contain directory-type information related to the composition of the committee. Candidate committees are already required to disclose their contributions in periodic disclosure reports as required by the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Removing the requirement that candidate committees redundantly disclose their contributions in the organizational report will make the organizational reports more efficient without sacrificing the public's access to contribution information.

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 S.B. No. 2153 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,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair