Bill Text: HI SB2445 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Elections; Campaign Finance; Restrictions on Use of Campaign Funds
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-16 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Thielen voting no (1) and Representative(s) Kong excused (1). [SB2445 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB2445-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 11-381, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Campaign funds may be used by a candidate, treasurer, or candidate committee:
(1) For any purpose directly related:
(A) In the case of the candidate, to the candidate's own campaign; or
(B) In the case of a candidate committee or treasurer of a candidate committee, to the campaign of the candidate, question, or issue with which they are directly associated;
(2) To purchase or lease consumer goods, vehicles, equipment, and services that provide a mixed benefit to the candidate. The candidate, however, shall reimburse the candidate's candidate committee for the candidate's personal use of these items unless the personal use is de minimis;
(3) To make donations to any community service,
educational, youth, recreational, charitable, scientific, or literary
organization; provided that in any election period, the total amount of all
donations shall be no more than twice the maximum amount that one person may
contribute to that candidate pursuant to section 11-357; provided further that
no [contributions] donations shall be made from the date the
candidate files nomination papers to the date of the general election[;]
unless the candidate is declared to be duly and legally elected to the office
for which the person is a candidate pursuant to section 12-41 or deemed and
declared to be duly and legally elected to the office for which the person is a
candidate pursuant to section 12-42;
(4) To make donations to any public school or public library; provided that in any election period, the total amount of all contributions shall be no more than twice the maximum amount that one person may contribute to that candidate pursuant to section 11-357; provided further that any donation under this paragraph shall not be aggregated with or imputed toward any limitation on donations pursuant to paragraph (3);
(5) To award scholarships to full-time students
attending an institution of higher education or a vocational education school
in a program leading to a degree, certificate, or other recognized educational
credential; provided that in any election period, the total amount of all
scholarships awarded shall be no more than twice the maximum amount that one
person may contribute to that candidate pursuant to section 11-357; provided
further that no awards shall be made from the filing deadline for nomination
papers to the date of the general election[;] unless the candidate is
declared to be duly and legally elected to the office for which the person is a
candidate pursuant to section 12-41 or deemed and declared to be duly and
legally elected to the office for which the person is a candidate pursuant to
section 12-42;
(6) To purchase not more than two tickets for each event held by another candidate or committee, whether or not the event constitutes a fundraiser as defined in section 11-342;
(7) To make contributions to the candidate's party so long as the contributions are not earmarked for another candidate; or
(8) To pay for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the candidate's duties as a holder of an office."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2017.
Report Title:
Elections; Campaign Finance; Restrictions on Use of Campaign Funds
Description:
Permits a candidate who has filed nomination papers to use election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships after the candidate is declared to be duly elected to office because the candidate is unopposed. (SB2445 HD1)
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