STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1461

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 588

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

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. 588, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend provisions of Hawaii's expungement law.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Clarifies that a conviction of a violation is not expungeable; and

(2) Permits the deletion of digital images pursuant to an expungement order.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General. The Office of the Public Defender and two individuals testified in opposition to the measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding a new section permitting the expungement of violations by submitting a written application to the Attorney General; and

(2) Removing the provision making a conviction of a violation not subject to expungement.

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. 588, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 588, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair