(a) The noncandidate committee organizational report shall include:

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-323

  • Ballot: includes :

    (1) A ballot summary reflecting a complete record of the ballot selections made by a voter utilizing an HTML ballot or similar accessible ballot that produces a ballot summary;

    (2) A voter verifiable paper audit trail in the event there is a discrepancy between a voting machine's electronic record of the voted ballot and the voter verifiable paper audit trail; and

    (3) A ballot used in an election by mail pursuant to part VIIA, including a ballot approved for electronic transmission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1

  • Candidate: means an individual who seeks nomination for election or seeks election to office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Commission: means the campaign spending commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • Treasurer: means a person appointed under § 11-324 and unless expressly indicated otherwise, includes deputy treasurers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-302
(1) The committee’s name, which shall incorporate the full name of the sponsoring entity, if any. An acronym or abbreviation may be used in other communications if the acronym or abbreviation is commonly known or clearly recognized by the general public. The committee’s name shall not include the name of a candidate;
(2) The committee’s address, including web page address, if any;
(3) The area, scope, or jurisdiction of the committee;
(4) The name and address of the committee’s sponsoring entity. If the committee does not have a sponsoring entity, the committee shall specify the trade, profession, or primary interest of contributors to the committee;
(5) The name, address, telephone number, occupation, and principal place of business of the chairperson;
(6) The name, address, telephone number, occupation, and principal place of business of the treasurer and any other officers;
(7) An indication as to whether the committee was formed to support or oppose a specific ballot question or candidate and, if so, a brief description of the question or name of the candidate;
(8) An indication as to whether the committee is a political party committee;
(9) The name, address, telephone number, occupation, and principal place of business of the custodian of the books and accounts;
(10) The name and address of the depository institution in which the committee will maintain its campaign account and each applicable account number; and
(11) A certification by the chairperson and treasurer of the statements in the organizational report.
(b) Any change in information previously reported in the organizational report shall be electronically filed with the commission within ten days of the change being brought to the attention of the committee chairperson or treasurer.
(c) The commission shall publish on its website the names of all noncandidate committees who have failed to:

(1) File the organizational report; or
(2) Correct a report within two weeks after the commission provides a notice to correct.
(d) Any noncandidate committee that violates all or any part of this section shall be subject to a minimum fine of $1,000 per violation.

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