(a) The filing dates for preliminary reports are:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-336

  • Candidate: means an individual who seeks nomination for election or seeks election to office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Election: means any election for office or for determining a question or issue provided by law or ordinance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Election period: means :

    (1) The two-year time period between the day after the general election through the day of the next general election, if a candidate is seeking nomination or election to a two-year office;
    (2) The four-year time period between the day after the general election through the day of the next general election, if a candidate is seeking nomination or election to a four-year office; or
    (3) For a special election, the period between the day after the general election for that office through the day of the special election. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Noncandidate committee: means an organization, association, party, or individual that has the purpose of making or receiving contributions, making expenditures, or incurring financial obligations to influence the nomination for election, or the election, of any candidate to office, or for or against any question or issue on the ballot; provided that a noncandidate committee does not include:

    (1) A candidate committee;
    (2) Any individual making a contribution or making an expenditure of the individual's own funds or anything of value that the individual originally acquired for the individual's own use and not for the purpose of evading any provision of this part; or
    (3) Any organization that raises or expends funds for the sole purpose of producing and disseminating informational or educational communications that are not made to influence the outcome of an election, question, or issue on a ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Party: means any political party that satisfies the requirements of section 11-61. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Person: means an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee or noncandidate committee, a party, an association, a corporation, a business entity, an organization, or a labor union and its auxiliary committees. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Treasurer: means a person appointed under § 11-324 and unless expressly indicated otherwise, includes deputy treasurers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
(1) Ten calendar days prior to a primary, special, or nonpartisan election;
(2) Ten calendar days prior to a general election; and
(3) October 1 of the year of a general election.

Each preliminary report shall be current through the fifth calendar day prior to the filing of the report.

(b) The filing date for the final primary report is twenty calendar days after the primary, initial special, or initial nonpartisan election. The report shall be current through the day of the applicable election.
(c) The filing date for the final election period report is thirty calendar days after a general, subsequent special, or subsequent nonpartisan election. The report shall be current through the day of the applicable election.
(d) The filing dates for supplemental reports are:

(1) January 31; and
(2) July 31 after an election year.

The report shall be current through December 31 for the report filed on January 31 and current through June 30 for the report filed on July 31.

(e) The authorized person in the case of a party, or treasurer in the case of any other noncandidate committee, shall continue to file all reports until the committee’s registration is terminated as provided in section candidate committee’s or noncandidate committee’s registration” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2022″ statecd=”HI”>11-326.