Report Title:

Campaign Finance Reform

 

Description:

Reduces the amount of money that a person can contribute to a campaign during an election period.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

903

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to campaign finance reform.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 11-204, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

1. By amending subsection (a) to read:

"(a) (1) No person or any other entity shall make contributions to:

(A) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a two-year office or to the candidate's committee in an aggregate amount greater than [$2,000] $200 during an election period;

(B) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-year statewide office or to the candidate's committee in an aggregate amount greater than [$6,000] $600 during an election period; and

(C) A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-year nonstatewide office or to the candidate's committee in an aggregate amount greater than [$4,000] $400 during an election period.

These limits shall not apply to a loan made to a candidate by a financial institution in the ordinary course of business.

(2) For purposes of this section, the length of term of an office shall be the usual length of term of the office as unaffected by reapportionment, a special election to fill a vacancy, or any other factor causing the term of the office the candidate is seeking to be less than the usual length of term of that office."

2. By amending subsection (c) to read:

"(c) A candidate's immediate family, in making contributions to the candidate's campaign, shall be exempt from the above limitation, but shall be limited in the aggregate to [$50,000] $5,000 in any election period. The aggregate amount of [$50,000] $5,000 shall include any loans made for campaign purposes to the candidate from the candidate's immediate family."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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