Bill Text: HI HB2249 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Elections; Campaign Contributions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - (H) Recommitted to JUD with none voting no and Representative(s) M. Lee excused. [HB2249 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2249-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  192-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2249

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2249 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow competitive solicitation contractors to contribute to political parties.

 

     The State of Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission, Americans for Democratic Action, and Common Cause Hawaii testified in opposition to this bill.

 

     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. 2249 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,

 

____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair