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. 606

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 30

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 30 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 for election candidates who voluntarily limit their campaign expenditures.

 

     Specifically, this measure, with regard to the program:

 

     (1)  Requires that affidavits to voluntarily limit campaign expenditures be filed no later than the time of filing nomination papers; and

 

     (2)  Increases the statutory campaign expenditure limit for prosecuting attorney candidates by placing these candidates in the same category as candidates for state senator, state representative, and county council member.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

 

     Your Committee finds that the establishment of a deadline for filing affidavits to voluntarily limit campaign expenditures will assist the Campaign Spending Commission in implementing the partial public financing program.  In addition, this measure promotes fairness in the administration of the program by placing candidates for the office of prosecuting attorney in an allowable expenditures category that is more appropriate for a county-wide office.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 30, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 30, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair