STAND. COM. REP. 2236

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2925

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 Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2925 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS IN THE SECOND DEGREE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make trespass on public housing property punishable as criminal trespass in the second degree.

The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii County Police Department, and Kauai County Anti-Drug Coordinator testified in support of this measure.

Currently, the police lack the authority to place persons trespassing on public housing property under physical arrest. This measure provides that authority by making such acts punishable under the penal code as criminal trespass in the second degree. Your Committee finds that this measure will help to curb loitering, drug and liquor violations, and vandalism in public housing projects.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical amendments to reflect preferred drafting style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2925, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2925, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing,

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RON MENOR, Chair