---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO CAMPAIGN REPORTS."
description: "Requires candidates who do not intend to receive or spend more than $1,000 in an election period to notify the Campaign Spending Commission of this intention by 6/30 of an election year, and noncandidate committees that do not intend to receive or spend more than $1,000 in an election period to notify the Commission of this intention by the 5th day before the due date of the preliminary primary report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "HB 165"
citation: "Hawaii HB 165 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission Package", "Final Election Period Report", "Candidate Committees", "Noncandidate Committees", "Contributions and Expenditures", "Organizational Report"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["SAIKI (Introduced by request of another party)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c36770a-6b66-4a80-8b12-629b83652ce4"
source_url: "http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=165&year=2019"
source_hash: "4e565209000d943d92a901e9f5011b510bf3694fcaaf3d045b630062870631de"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii HB 165 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO CAMPAIGN REPORTS.

Requires candidates who do not intend to receive or spend more than $1,000 in an election period to notify the Campaign Spending Commission of this intention by 6/30 of an election year, and noncandidate committees that do not intend to receive or spend more than $1,000 in an election period to notify the Commission of this intention by the 5th day before the due date of the preliminary primary report.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB165** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2019/bills/HB165_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- SAIKI (Introduced by request of another party) — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-17** Pending introduction.
- **2019-01-18** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Referred to JUD, referral sheet 2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Thursday, 01-31-19 2:00PM in House conference room 325.
- **2019-01-31** The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred until 02-01-19.
- **2019-01-31** Bill scheduled for decision making on Friday, 02-01-19 2:01PM in conference room 325.
- **2019-02-01** The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) C. Lee, San Buenaventura, Brower, Creagan, Lowen, McKelvey, Morikawa, Takayama; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Say, Yamane, Thielen. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 473), recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2019-02-14** Passed Second Reading; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Aquino, Nakamura excused (2).
- **2019-02-15** Deferred one day 02-19-19.
- **2019-02-19** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McKelvey, Nakamura excused (2). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2019-02-20** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 8). `introduction`
- **2019-03-07** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** Referred to JDC. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-12-19 9:00AM in conference room 016.
- **2019-03-12** The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Rhoads, Wakai, Gabbard, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1533) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2019-03-27** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading.
- **2019-03-27** One Day Notice 03-28-19.
- **2019-03-28** Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 538).
- **2019-03-28** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2019-04-16** Act 008, on 04/15/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-16** Act 008, 04/15/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c36770a-6b66-4a80-8b12-629b83652ce4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).