Report Title:

Sex Offenders; Registration

 

Description:

Authorizes law enforcement officers to make periodic contacts with sex offenders to verify required registration information.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1204

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to registration of sex offenders.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 846E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§846E-5[]] Periodic verification of registration information. Unless the sex offender is incarcerated or has registered with a designated law enforcement agency after establishing residence in another state, on the first day of every ninety-day period following the sex offender's initial registration date:

(1) The attorney general shall mail a nonforwardable verification form to the last reported address of the sex offender;

(2) The sex offender shall sign the verification form and state that the sex offender still resides at the address last reported to the attorney general and that no other registration information has changed or shall provide the new information;

(3) The sex offender shall mail the signed and completed verification form to the attorney general within ten days after receipt of the form; [and]

(4) If the sex offender fails to mail the verification form to the attorney general within ten days after receipt of the form, the sex offender shall be in violation of this chapter, unless the sex offender proves that the sex offender has not changed the residence address[.

This section shall become effective on July 1, 1998.]; and

(5) Law enforcement officers may make periodic person-to-person contacts with sex offenders at the sex offender's residence for the purpose of verifying and updating registration information required under this chapter. Sex offenders shall provide proof of their identity as well as any pertinent registration information as required under this chapter, upon a request from any law enforcement officer."

SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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