STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1415

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1749

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct periodic reviews of statutes and rules outside of the Hawaii Penal Code and recommend changes on the types of penalties imposed, including the potential decriminalization of non-serious offenses.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Judiciary and the Legislative Reference Bureau.

This measure enables the Legislative Reference Bureau to work with the Judiciary and other state agencies to identify and review sanctions imposed by statutes and rules outside of the Hawaii Penal Code. Your Committee finds that this measure continues the work begun by the Legislative Reference Bureau conducted under the auspices of House Concurrent Resolution No. 261, H.D. 1, S.D. 1 (2004).

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, non-substantive amendment for purposes of clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair