(a) Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, a candidate committee or noncandidate committee whose aggregate contributions and aggregate expenditures for the election period total $1,000 or less, shall electronically file only a final election period report, and need not file a preliminary and final primary report, a preliminary and final general report, or a special election report.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-339

  • Candidate: means an individual who seeks nomination for election or seeks election to office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Candidate committee: means an organization, association, or individual that receives campaign funds, makes expenditures, or incurs financial obligations on behalf of a candidate with the candidate's authorization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Commission: means the campaign spending commission. 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
  • Special election: means any election other than a primary or general election. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
(b) By June 30 of an election year, a candidate committee that does not intend to receive contributions and make expenditures that aggregate more than $1,000 in an election period shall notify the commission of its intent in the candidate committee’s organizational report.
(c) By the fifth calendar day before the due date of the preliminary primary report that is due ten days before the election, a noncandidate committee that does not intend to receive contributions and make expenditures that aggregate more than $1,000 in an election period shall notify the commission of its intent in the noncandidate committee’s organizational report.
(d) Until the candidate committee’s or noncandidate committee’s registration is terminated as provided in § 11-325, supplemental reports and other reports required’ by this part shall be filed.

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