STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1436

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   S.B. No. 201

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 201, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTRIBUTIONS BY STATE AND COUNTY CONTRACTORS AND GRANTEES OF THE STATE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to expand the prohibition on campaign contributions from state and county contractors to include grantees of the State, and the officers and immediate family of the government contractor or state grantee.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Commission to Improve Standards of Conduct, Campaign Spending Commission, and four individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Commission to Improve Standards of Conduct established by the House of Representatives in House Resolution No. 9, Regular Session of 2022, recommended prohibiting state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contractor or grantee from making campaign contributions to candidate committees and noncandidate.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting its contents and inserting the contents of H.B. No. 724, a substantially similar measure, which previously passed the House, and which amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contractor or grantee; 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 S.B. No. 201, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 201, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair