STAND. COM. REP. NO.  602-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2313

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2313 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESISTING ARREST,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to safeguard law enforcement and the public by creating the felony offense of resisting arrest in the first degree to apply to an attempt to take a law enforcement officer's firearm during an arrest attempt.

 

     This measure also establishes the existing misdemeanor offense of resisting arrest as a second-degree offense.

 

     The Department of Public Safety; Honolulu Police Department; Hawaii Police Department; and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported the measure.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2313, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2313, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair