STAND. COM. REP. NO. 620-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1424

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1424, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CANDIDATE COMMITTEE AND NONCANDIDATE COMMITTEE ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal certain cross-references in the campaign spending law that refer to language that was previously repealed.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

Your Committee finds that this housekeeping measure updates Hawaii's campaign spending laws to remove obsolete references to subsections that were repealed by Act 80 and Act 81, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2022; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1424, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1424, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair