STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1292

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 280

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 280, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Clarify the filing due dates of preliminary, final, and supplemental reports of candidate committees to be submitted to the Campaign Spending Commission;

 

     (2)  Require a candidate who is elected and is sworn into office prior to thirty calendar days after a general, subsequent, subsequent special, or subsequent nonpartisan election to file the final election period report three business days before the date the candidate is to be sworn into office; and

 

     (3)  Specify the supplemental report filing deadlines for a candidate whose name will not appear on the ballot.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission and Common Cause Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the current practice for candidates is to file a supplemental report by January 31 of every year, not just on January 31 after an election year as required by law.  While this measure is intended to conform the law with current practice, your Committee finds that requiring a candidate and treasurer of the candidate committee to file a supplemental report on January 31 in an election year does not accomplish this intent.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Reinstating the language under section 11-334(a)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the supplemental report filing deadline dates, and requiring the supplemental report due on January 31 to be filed annually, rather than after an election year;

 

     (2)  Deleting the amendments under section 11-334(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, that would have required in an election year that the candidate and treasurer of a candidate committee of each candidate whose name will appear on the ballot to file a supplemental report on January 31 and specified supplemental report filing deadlines for a candidate whose name will not appear on the ballot; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 280, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 280, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair