Bill Text: HI SB2648 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Campaign Funds; Uses; Scholarships

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-16 - (S) Act 020, 4/13/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). [SB2648 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2648-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1147-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2648

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2648 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide additional scholarship opportunities for students seeking higher education by authorizing campaign funds to be used 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.

 

     The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Americans for Democratic Action Hawaii, and Common Cause Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.  The Campaign Spending Commission and Office of Hawaiian Affairs provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2648, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2648, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair