STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2440

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2120
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
2120 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACT 316, SESSION LAWS OF
     HAWAII 1993, AS AMENDED BY ACT 157, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII
     1995; AND TO ACT 278, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1999,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to add reenactment language to
laws that were amended, and will be inadvertently repealed, by
laws establishing the expedited sentencing program and amending
the crime victim compensation special fund.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the Crime Victim Compensation Commission.  Informational
testimony was received from the Legislative Reference Bureau.

     Your Committee finds that there is a need to take action to
prevent the repeal of sections 706-621, 706-623, and 351-62.5(d),
Hawaii Revised Statutes, which will be repealed in their entirety
in 2001 unless some action is taken by the Legislature.  Your
Committee agrees with the intent of this bill, and finds that the
repeal of these sections was not originally intended by the
Legislature, but was instead inadvertent, and that the failure to
amend these laws will result in further ambiguity as to their
intended disposition.

 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill to make a technical,
nonsubstantive change.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2120, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2120, S.D. 1, and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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