STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1085
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2021
RE: S.B. No. 405
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2021
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Government Reform, to which was referred S.B. No. 405, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund was established to be used for partial public financing of campaigns of the State and its political subdivisions. Your Committee further finds that this measure will provide an additional source of income for the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund and allow candidates to more readily use available public financing through the Fund.
Your Committee additionally finds that when the law was changed to allow for unreturned contributions to escheat to the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund, nonresident contributions were not included because the law that limited candidates from receiving thirty percent of a contribution from a nonresident contributor is in a different part of the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Accordingly, your Committee sees this measure as a way to close this unforeseen loophole.
Your
Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2112,
to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Reform that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 405, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 405, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Reform,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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