HB 1845 Summary

• Increases the maximum amount of public funds available to candidates participating in Hawaii's partial public financing program for all elective offices, with amounts based on a percentage of expenditure limits rather than fixed dollar amounts.

• Adjusts minimum qualifying contribution thresholds that candidates must receive to participate in the program, including for Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs candidates.

• Increases matching fund payments for qualifying contributions exceeding the minimum threshold amounts.

• Appropriates funds from general revenues to the Hawaii election campaign fund and provides funding for additional full-time equivalent positions within the campaign spending commission.

• Becomes effective July 1, 3000 (note: appears to contain a typographical error in the effective date).