STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1168

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 93

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 93 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Campaign Spending Commission to publish on its website the names of candidates and persons who qualify as noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizational report or a corrected organizational report with the Campaign Spending Commission.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission, Commission to Improve Standards of Conduct, and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that a noncandidate committee cannot file required disclosure reports without first registering with the Campaign Spending Commission by filing an organizational report. Your Committee further finds that organizational reports should be timely filed and the failure to file organizational reports should be disclosed to the public in some manner. This measure will allow the Campaign Spending Commission to publish the names of noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizational report, which will motivate them to do so.

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 H.B. No. 93, 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,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair