RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Establishes a pilot program for the city and county of Honolulu council election of 2002 providing for public funding for candidates who voluntarily abide by specific contribution and expenditure limits; and appropriating $150,000 to the campaign spending commission to provide support staff for the program.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Provides that expenditures or financial assistance by a political party to a candidate, with or without the cooperation, consultation, request, or suggestion of the candidate, shall be a contribution to and an expenditure by the candidate.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Adds the requirement that certain notices in election advertising shall be continuous and legible, and that the notice be given at the beginning and end of a radio broadcast.

RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROMOTE OR SUPPORT CIVIC OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Amends section 11-200 to provide for the use of campaign funds to promote, support, or fund civic or charitable purposes.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Allows voter with physical disability to receive a ballot outside the polling place but within the 100 feet area and allowed to vote.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Clarifies that "qualifying campaign contributions" applies to individual residents of Hawaii. Removes the authority of the campaign commission to censure any candidate who fails to comply with the code of fair campaign practices. Increases candidate funding amounts. Increases the qualifying campaign contribution amounts for the office of prosecuting attorney for Honolulu, the office of county council for the county of Maui, the office of state senator, and the office of state representative.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires the elections appointment and review panel to submit to the legislature the findings and recommendations from the biennial performance evaluation before each regular session held in even-numbered years instead of odd-numbered years; makes appropriation.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires a recount in elections when results between 2 leading candidates is less than 0.5% of the votes cast for each candidate excluding spoiled, over or under, and blank ballots.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Establishes a temporary task force to comprehensively review, evaluate, and recommend changes to Hawaii's election laws regarding vote counting, particularly consideration of automatic recount and contesting procedures, to ensure the integrity and certainty of the State's electoral process.

RELATING TO ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF INCOMPETENT PERSONS.

Includes first and second degree penal sanctions against any person who intentionally or recklessly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical or mental welfare of a person who is unable to care for himself because of a physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect.

RELATING TO DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID TESTING.

Ensures the availability of DNA testing in appropriate cases and that wrongfully convicted persons have an opportunity to establish their innocence through DNA testing, by requiring the preservation of DNA evidence for a limited period.

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.

Implements certain LRB study recommendations concerning access and use of criminal history record information to conduct criminal history record checks for noncriminal justice employment and licensing screening; creates working group to make recommendations on policy issues raised by study.

RELATING TO CRIMINAL RECORDS.

Authorizes the attorney general to expunge sex offender registration information upon the written request of a sex offender who has not been convicted of any felony, misdemeanor, or petty misdemeanor for the last twenty years.

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Mandates substance abuse assessment/treatment for offenders under the custody of the Department of Public Safety.

RELATING TO COMPUTER CRIME.

Amends the existing computer crime statutes by expanding the scope of prohibited activity and creating a range of offenses, from misdemeanor to class B felony.

RELATING TO DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL.

Specifies that deputy attorneys shall perform duties as the attorney general may require regardless of the source of state funding for compensation.

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Establishes an impact litigation unit in the office of the attorney general.

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Provides that service of process upon the university shall be made by delivering the complaint and the summons to the university's general counsel or to any attorney in the office of the university general counsel.

RELATING TO THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN PERSONS' CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE AND PROVIDING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFORE.

Provides funds for the payment of claims against the State for refunds of taxes, for judgments and settlements, and for other miscellaneous payments as provided by chapters 37, 661 and 662.

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Establishes a permanent drug court for the second circuit.

RELATING TO NEUROTRAUMA.

Establishes a neurotrauma special fund and commission.

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Rep. Eric G. Hamakawa