STAND. COM. REP. NO. 449

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1333

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1333 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS IN THE SECOND DEGREE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to further protect residents of public housing by making trespass committed on public housing grounds punishable as criminal trespass in the second degree.

The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii supported the intent of this bill. The Honolulu Police Department opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1333, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1333, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

 

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MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair