Bill Text: HI SB2508 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Campaign Reporting Laws; Report Filing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-15 - (S) Act 118, 6/15/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1220). [SB2508 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2508-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 21-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2508

       S.D. 2

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2508, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN REPORTING LAWS,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend filing deadlines for preliminary and supplemental campaign spending reports to align with existing law or present practice.

 

     Your Committee on Conference finds that the date of the primary election was advanced from the last Saturday in September to the second Saturday in August.  This measure changes the existing statutory deadline for filing a candidate's first preliminary campaign spending report from July 31 of an election year to thirty calendar days prior to a primary election to avoid back-to-back filing deadlines of July 31 and August 1 for the first and second preliminary primary campaign spending reports, respectively, and to align accordingly with the August primary election date.

 

     Your Committee on Conference further finds that this measure requires candidates to file a supplemental campaign spending report on January 31 of every year; not only after an election year, as stated under existing law.  As present practice is to file a supplemental campaign spending report every year, your Committee on Conference believes that amending existing law is not necessary.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by changing the filing date for supplemental reports back to January 31 after an election year.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2508, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2508, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair
		____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Co-Chair