STAND. COM. REP. NO. 27

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 42

H.D. 1

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. 42 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize candidates and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to unspecified funds of the State or counties.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one member of the Honolulu City Council. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission and one individual.

Your Committee finds that allowing candidates to donate their residual campaign funds to the state general fund and county real property tax general funds will help support governmental services that benefit their communities and constituents.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the residual campaign funds may be donated to the general fund of the State or to the real property tax general fund of any county of the State;

(2) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 42, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 42, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair