STAND. COM. REP. NO. 745

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1067

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1067, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARITABLE SOLICITATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to strengthen and update the laws on charitable solicitations.

 

Specifically, the measure:

 

(1)  Authorizes the Attorney General to require the electronic filing of specified documents from professional solicitors, commercial co-venturers, and charitable organizations;

 

(2)  Requires the electronic filing of annual financial reports from charitable organizations;

 

(3)  Imposes fines on professional solicitors for failing to timely file their required financial reports;

 

(4)  Authorizes the Attorney General to impose administrative fines on commercial co-venturers for violations; and

 

(5)  Adds educational institutions accredited by the Northwest Accreditation Commission for primary and secondary schools as another type of charitable organization that is eligible for exemption from the registration and financial reporting requirements.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will support the efforts of the Department of the Attorney General in executing its duties under the charitable solicitations law.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to the date of the measure's approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1067, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1067, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair