STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2104

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2213

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2213 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide that an excess contribution of more than $100 in cash, in the aggregate, from a single person during an election period to a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee shall escheat to the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund if not returned to the contributor within thirty days.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Campaign Spending Commission.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that Act 6, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, amended section 11-351(b), Hawaii Revised statutes, to prohibit the acceptance of a cash contribution of more than $100, in the aggregate, during an election period. This measure will conform existing law to treat an excess cash contribution consistently with other types of excess contributions by requiring the return of an excess cash contribution to the contributor within thirty days of receipt of the excess contribution.

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 S.B. No. 2213 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