STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2109

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2566

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2566 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGNS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require all public contractors to explicitly agree through a provision in their public contracts to be subject to the prohibition and penalties for any violations of campaign contribution laws.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure requires by statute a provision that is already included in all state contracts acknowledging that the contractor has been notified of the provisions of existing law prohibiting contributions by state and county contractors using funds appropriated by the legislative body.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2566 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair