REPORT TITLE:
Campaign Spending 


DESCRIPTION:
Amends contribution limits.  Requires candidates who withdraw or
cease to be candidates to return private contributions to the
donors within 8 years, and in the event of death, requires
residual contributions to escheat to the Hawaii election campaign
fund. (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        1984
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 11-204, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "§11-204  Campaign contributions; limits as to persons.(a)
 
 4 No person, other than a candidate for the candidate's own
 
 5 campaign, political party, political committees established and
 
 6 maintained by a national political party, or any other entity
 
 7 shall make contributions to:
 
 8      (1)  A candidate seeking nomination or election to a two-
 
 9           year office or to the candidate's committee in an
 
10           aggregate amount greater than [$2,000] $1,000 during an
 
11           election period;
 
12      (2)  A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-
 
13           year statewide office or to the candidate's committee
 
14           in an aggregate amount greater than [$6,000] $3,000
 
15           during an election period; and
 
16      (3)  A candidate seeking nomination or election to a four-
 
17           year nonstatewide office or to the candidate's
 
18           committee in an aggregate amount greater than [$4,000]
 
19           $2,000 during an election period.
 

 
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 1      These limits shall not apply to a loan made to a candidate
 
 2 by a financial institution in the ordinary course of business.
 
 3 For purposes of this section, the length of term of an office
 
 4 shall be the usual length of term of the office as unaffected by
 
 5 reapportionment, a special election to fill a vacancy, or any
 
 6 other factor causing the term of the office the candidate is
 
 7 seeking to be less than the usual length of term of that office."
 
 8      SECTION 2.  Section 11-214, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 9 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
10      "(a)  All candidates who withdraw or cease to be candidates,
 
11 or committees directly associated with such candidates,
 
12 individuals who receive contributions but fail to file for
 
13 nomination, or committees or parties which discontinue their
 
14 activities covered in this subpart, shall return all residual
 
15 private contributions to the donors of such contributions within
 
16 eight years if their identities are known, provided that if the
 
17 identity of any donor is not known, or the donor cannot be found,
 
18 such contribution shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign
 
19 fund.  In the event of a death of a candidate, the candidate's
 
20 committee, if any, shall return all residual private
 
21 contributions to the donors of such contributions, provided that
 

 
 
 
 
 
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 1 any residual contributions not returned to the donors within
 
 2 sixty days of the candidate's death shall escheat to the Hawaii
 
 3 election campaign fund."
 
 4      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 5 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.