republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2023-regular-session/sb-203.md

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Bill	RELATING TO COMPLAINTS ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN SPENDING LAWS.	Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as a rebuttable presumption that a violation has occurred. Provides the respondent with thirty days from the mailing of the complaint to explain or otherwise respond before the rebuttable presumption takes effect. (CD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2023 Regular Session	SB 203	Hawaii SB 203 (2023 Regular Session)	bill	Complaints Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission Package Rebuttable Presumption Violations	enacted	KOUCHI	4	39	4	2023-01-19	2023-06-23	openstates	ocd-bill/f06dbc79-e04c-4dc2-8886-706a35f67862	https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=203&year=2023	f6fb7ed017b9b5a3695c8847ba2baee013bd3b5bc3f9b4cbdb93cc4fa142c2e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii SB 203 (2023 Regular Session) — RELATING TO COMPLAINTS ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN SPENDING LAWS.

Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as a rebuttable presumption that a violation has occurred. Provides the respondent with thirty days from the mailing of the complaint to explain or otherwise respond before the rebuttable presumption takes effect. (CD1)

Version chain

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

1. SB203 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB203_CD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB203_HD1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB203_SD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. — 3–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• KOUCHI — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-23 Act 118, 06/23/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). became-law
• 2023-06-23 Act 118, on 06/23/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). became-law
• 2023-05-03 Enrolled to Governor. executive-receipt
• 2023-05-04 Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 900). receipt
• 2023-05-02 Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 993). receipt
• 2023-05-02 Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). passage
• 2023-05-02 Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa). Excused, 0 (none). passage
• 2023-04-27 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 05-02-23.
• 2023-04-27 Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 5) as amended in (CD 1).
• 2023-04-27 48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 05-02-23.
• 2023-04-27 Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 5).
• 2023-04-21 The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
• 2023-04-21 The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Elefante, Gabbard; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-21 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 829). receipt
• 2023-04-20 Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-21-23 2:35PM; Conference Room 325.
• 2023-04-20 House Conferees Appointed: Tarnas Chair; Takayama, Souza.
• 2023-04-17 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 893). receipt
• 2023-04-17 Senate Conferees Appointed: Rhoads Chair; Elefante, Gabbard.
• 2023-04-04 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 557). receipt
• 2023-04-04 Senate disagrees with House amendments. amendment-failure
• 2023-04-04 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 535). introduction, receipt
• 2023-04-03 Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Nishimoto excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2023-03-31 Deferred one day 04-03-23. deferral
• 2023-03-29 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).
• 2023-03-29 Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1627) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2023-03-22 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Ganaden, Hashimoto, Ichiyama, Ilagan, Kong, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Mizuno. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-20 Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Wednesday, 03-22-23 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to JHA, referral sheet 17 referral-committee
• 2023-02-16 Pass First Reading reading-1
• 2023-02-15 Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 9) in amended form (SD 1). introduction, receipt
• 2023-02-15 Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 1). Ayes, 23; Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Lee). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2023-02-13 48 Hrs. Notice 02-15-23.
• 2023-02-13 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-13 Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 207) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
• 2023-02-07 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Elefante, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) San Buenaventura ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-03 The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 02-07-23 9:30AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
• 2023-01-23 Referred to JDC. referral-committee
• 2023-01-19 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2023-01-19 Introduced. introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f06dbc79-e04c-4dc2-8886-706a35f67862. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).