CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.53-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2282

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

C.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2282, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this bill is to amend the registration law for sex offenders and other covered offenders. Specifically, this bill:

(1) Amends the definition of "repeat covered offender" to expressly except the conviction of multiple counts within a single charging document;

(2) Adds conviction for a covered offense, unless incarcerated, and release on probation as events requiring a covered offender remaining in the state for a certain period of time to register with the police;

(3) Specifies that the Attorney General (AG) must represent the State in any civil proceeding to terminate public access to registration information, unless the AG designates the prosecuting agency that prosecuted the covered offender for the most recent covered offense within the state, with the prosecuting agency's consent;

(4) Requires covered offenders subject to registration to:

(A) Notify the AG if the offender is absent from the offender's registered residence for at least ten days and fails to establish a new residence; and

(B) Report to a police station by the last day of every month and disclose where the offender has slept in the previous month, until the offender establishes a new residence and notifies the AG of the new residence;

and

(5) Amends the offense of failure to comply with covered offender registration requirements to include an offender who fails to satisfy the new reporting requirements for offenders absent from their registered residence.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2282, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2282, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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BLAKE K. OSHIRO, Chair