STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1119-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2255

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2255, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TIME LIMITATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to add crimes that include deception as an element to the group of offenses where prosecution may commence up to three years after discovery of the offense, although the statute of limitation has expired.

The Attorney General, Honolulu Police Department, and Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Maui supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Inserting a savings clause to exclude matters that existed prior to the effective date of this Act; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2255, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2255, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair