Hawaii Senate Bill 3170 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 23 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-27 - Referred to JDC.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

PART I: Adopts the code of fair campaign practices to allow candidates and noncandidates to agree to conduct their campaigns consistent with the code. PART II: Allows for a candidate that obtains the minimum qualifying contribution amount for public funding be eligible to receive payments of $3 for each $1 of qualifying contributions under $10 in excess of minimum qualifying contributions amounts. PART III: Establishes a public participation fee to be paid by noncandidate committees that only make independent expenditures and directs those funds to the partial public financing program. PART IV: Increases spending limits by ten per cent for candidates that voluntarily agree to limit campaign expenditures.

Relating To Election Campaigns.

Sen. Les Ihara [D]

Sen. Kurt Fevella [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-27	Senate	Referred to JDC.
2020-01-27	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2020-01-23	Senate	Introduced.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=3170&year=2020
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/SB3170_.HTM