HB 772 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE.

Summary

Disallows the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 5, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB772 → HB772_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a House bill to a House Committee version (HD1) with minor substantive changes to the effective date and a renumbering of permitted campaign fund uses. The most significant policy change is the removal of the restriction on purchasing up to two tickets for events held by other candidates, while the effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to July 1, 3000.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains the same, but the effective date was significantly altered from immediate effect to July 1, 3000, which appears to be a placeholder or error.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000', which is likely a placeholder or clerical error rather than an intentional policy change.

REQUIREMENT

The restriction prohibiting candidates from using campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for events held by other candidates was removed from the list of permitted uses.

TECHNICAL

The bill was renumbered from HB 772 to HB 772 HD1, indicating it has been processed by the House Committee on Appropriations or similar committee.

Minor formatting changes were made to the text, including removing bracketed strikethroughs and adjusting line breaks, but the substantive content of the remaining provisions remained unchanged.

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Key actions

Committee

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 170) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

8 primary · 0 co-sponsors