STAND. COM. REP. NO. 785

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 463

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 463 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to lower the threshold for disclosure of campaign expenditures by noncandidate committees to $100.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

Your Committee finds that campaign spending disclosure requirements provides voters with useful information, deters corruption and avoids the appearance of such conduct, and facilitates the enforcement of the law. This measure enhances election transparency by lowering the threshold for campaign spending expenditure disclosures for noncandidate committees to $100.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 463 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________

DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair