STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1297

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 282

       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. 282, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that increased fines may apply if a noncandidate committee fails to timely file a second preliminary general report with the Campaign Spending Commission.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 79, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, required noncandidate committees to file an additional preliminary report by October 1 of the year of a general election.  This measure makes conforming amendments to make the late filing of a second preliminary general report by noncandidate committees subject to a fine of $300 per day, which matches the fine imposed on candidate committees that are late in filing preliminary reports.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the monetary fine shall be a maximum of $300 per day, provided that in the aggregate the fine shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the total amount of contributions or expenditures plus a fine of $300, rather than solely limiting the aggregate amount to the percentage of the total amount of contributions or expenditures; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for 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. 282, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 282, 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