STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1638-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2108

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2108 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to facilitate criminal investigations by authorizing the Department of the Attorney General and the County Prosecuting Attorneys to issue administrative subpoenas to obtain records held by entities located outside the State.   

 

     The Department of the Attorney General and City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney provided testimony in support of the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2108, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2108, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair