STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2748

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2043

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2043 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal references in sections 11‑322(b) and 11‑323(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to paragraphs in subsection (a) of those statutes that have been repealed.

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

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housekeeping measure updates Hawaii's campaign spending laws to remove obsolete references to subsections that were repealed by Acts 80 and 81, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018.

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. 2043 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair