Bill Text: HI SB30 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Campaign Spending; Voluntary Candidate Expenditure Limits; Prosecuting Attorney

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-01 - Act 063, 4/30/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1163). [SB30 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB30-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1232

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 30

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 30, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the administration of the Partial Public Financing Program by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the affidavit of any candidate who voluntarily agrees to limit the candidate's expenditures to be filed no later than the time of filing nomination papers; and

 

     (2)  Setting the maximum expenditure limits for a candidate who voluntarily agrees to limit campaign spending for the office of prosecuting attorney.

 

     The Campaign Spending Commission testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon approval.

     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. 30, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 30, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair