STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1074

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1155

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1155 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROPERTY DAMAGE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the calculation of the value of damage to agricultural products, including future losses and the loss of future production.

 

     The Department of Agriculture, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, and Kauai Coffee Company, Inc., testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 


     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 H.B. No. 1155, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1155, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair