STAND. COM. REP. 2607

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2842

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2842 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 846E, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require child pornographers to register as sex offenders, redraft the penalty section to conform to the drafting conventions of the Model Penal Code, and make technical amendments to chapter 846E, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Maui Department of Prosecuting Attorney, County of Hawaii Police Department, County of Kauai Police Department, Hawaii Family Forum, and three individuals. Comments were also submitted by the Office of the Public Defender.

Your Committee finds that there is a public policy reason to include in the sex offender registry persons convicted of the creation and dissemination of child pornography or of electronic enticement of a child. Your Committee believes that these offenses involve egregious conduct against the health and welfare of children and this measure provides the means to address this by requiring registration.

Your Committee adopted the amendments suggested by the Office of the Public Defender to remove "legal address".

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 S.B. No. 2842, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2842, 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