STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2545

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2154

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2154 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS OF NONCANDIDATE COMMITTEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the reporting requirement regarding contributions in organizational reports of noncandidate committees and noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

Your Committee finds that noncandidate committee organizational reports contain directory-type information related to the composition of the committee. Noncandidate committees are already required to disclose their contributions in periodic disclosure reports as required by the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Removing the requirement that noncandidate committees redundantly disclose their contributions in the organizational report will make the organizational reports more efficient without sacrificing the public's access to contribution information.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2154 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair