Section 11-365 - Contributions and expenditures by lobbyists prohibited during legislative session(a) During any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legislative recess days, holidays, and weekends, and for five calendar days before and after a session, no lobbyist shall make, or promise to make at a later time, any contributions or expenditures to or on behalf of an elected official, candidate, candidate committee, or any other individual required to file an organizational report pursuant to section 11-321. No elected official, candidate, candidate committee, or other individual required to file an organizational report pursuant to section 11-321 shall accept, or agree to accept at a later time, any contribution from a lobbyist during the specified period under this subsection. Any contribution prohibited by this subsection shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund.(b) For the purposes of this section: "Elected official" has the same meaning as in section 11-342.
"Lobbyist" means any person actively registered as a lobbyist with a state or county ethics board or commission.
Added by L 2023, c 128,§ 2, eff. 6/23/2023.