Bill Text: HI HB1927 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Campaign Finance Reports; Filing Deadlines

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-06 - (S) Recommitted to JDL. [HB1927 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1927-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2489

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1927

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1927 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the filing deadlines for preliminary and supplemental campaign spending reports to align with existing law or present practice.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the date of the primary election was advanced from the last Saturday in September to the second Saturday in August.  This measure changes the existing statutory deadline for filing a candidate's first preliminary campaign spending report from July 31 of an election year to thirty calendar days prior to a primary election to avoid back-to-back filing deadlines of July 31 and August 1, for the first and second preliminary primary campaign spending reports, respectively, and to align accordingly with the August primary election date.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with the contents of S.B. No. 2508, S.D. 2, which is substantially similar but does not amend section 11-334(a)(4), Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the filing deadlines for supplemental reports.

 

     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. 1927, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1927, 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,

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair